{"id":3565,"date":"2022-04-20T09:45:33","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T08:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=3565"},"modified":"2022-04-20T09:45:33","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T08:45:33","slug":"going-against-the-flow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2022\/04\/20\/going-against-the-flow\/","title":{"rendered":"Going against the flow"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3566\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3566\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3566\" src=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_2079.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_2079.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_2079-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3566\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The wind roughing up the surface of our local reservoir<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu\/\/texts.php?id=134\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sunday&#8217;s lectionary<\/a>, Peter and the apostles are before the High Priest and Council. They say, <em>&#8220;We must obey God rather than any human authority.&#8221;<\/em> There may be times when this is easy. But for the Priest and council, living under a brutal Roman empire, this must have been much harder. Some sort of compromise is almost inevitable. So it is that Peter accuses them of having Jesus put to death, even though it was the Romans that did it. The council were complicit in this.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I retreat from obeying God and just go with the flow. Sometimes I find it hard to know what God is asking me to do.<br \/>\nSometimes I&#8217;m pretty sure that others have got God wrong: is God <em>really<\/em> an antivaxer?<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, remember the apostles&#8217; courageous words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Sunday&#8217;s lectionary, Peter and the apostles are before the High Priest and Council. They say, &#8220;We must obey God rather than any human authority.&#8221; There may be times when this is easy. But for the Priest and council, living under a brutal Roman empire, this must have been much harder. Some sort of compromise &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2022\/04\/20\/going-against-the-flow\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Going against the flow&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3567,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3565\/revisions\/3567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}