{"id":12291,"date":"2021-08-10T22:45:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T22:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=12291"},"modified":"2021-08-10T22:45:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T22:45:00","slug":"old-testament-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/12291\/old-testament-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Testament Bible Study"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning, Pastor John.<\/span><\/p>\n

I have been thinking about our Bible study* and what we learned and did not learn.\u00a0 The whys, if you will.\u00a0 “Why didn’t Abram trust God enough to tell the truth about Sarai”\u00a0 “Why didn’t Lot just leave the evil place he was living?” etc.\u00a0 While pondering these things, the question came to me, “Why don’t you?”\u00a0 We seem to always look at others and wonder why\u00a0those people<\/em>\u00a0don’t do right and trust God more, and we miss our own log in our own eye.\u00a0 Then the thought came, “It’s a good example for us that even though these great men and women were not perfect, God still loved them because their hearts were in the right place.\u00a0 If they always had done the right thing there would be no examples of God’s mercy for us to have hope, so that even a lowly being like me could have hope.”\u00a0 What a great God we have!<\/span><\/p>\n

I have slowed my pace on my Bible study.\u00a0 I was trying to finish, and it was revealed to me that it’s the journey to strive for, not the completion.\u00a0 Going too fast, I was missing important lessons.\u00a0 Study a bit and reflect on it, and let God work is my goal now.\u00a0 There’s a lesson in nearly every sentence if you take your time to see it.\u00a0 The book could have been very huge.\u00a0 I think that God chose these particular words in the Bible for a reason, and each one carries weight for us.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What a glorious day for learning the lessons from God!<\/span><\/p>\n

Thank you for your years of service to God.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mark<\/span><\/p>\n

* Old Testament Course (Pt. 1) – Going to Jesus.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good morning, Pastor John. I have been thinking about our Bible study* and what we learned and did not learn.\u00a0 The whys, if you will.\u00a0 “Why didn’t Abram trust God enough to tell the truth about Sarai”\u00a0 “Why didn’t Lot just leave the evil place he was living?” etc.\u00a0 While pondering these things, the question […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}