{"id":12400,"date":"2021-09-21T13:18:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T13:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=12400"},"modified":"2021-09-21T13:18:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T13:18:00","slug":"god-is-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/12400\/god-is-right\/","title":{"rendered":"God Is Right!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I\u2019ve been reading in Joshua this morning.\u00a0\u00a0I do not remember knowing that Joshua fought for the Lord, clearing the land of enemies, until he was old, long after crossing into Canaan.\u00a0\u00a0And I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s the smoke of that burnt-up old upbringing in Christianity or just the flesh that made me say &#8220;Really? even after they crossed over\u2026until he was old?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I had similar thoughts reading and thinking about all the killing in the book of Joshua.\u00a0\u00a0It feels very good to know to say, &#8220;God, you&#8217;re right.\u00a0\u00a0I want your heart,\u201d and repent of my own thoughts, and go on.\u00a0\u00a0There really is great comfort in just having that on the inside: \u201cGod is right.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I talked to a dear relative yesterday.\u00a0\u00a0It was pleasant enough a conversation, but reading this in Joshua reminded me of how there is still a separating darkness between God&#8217;s children and the world, still that dividing veil: \u201cAnd when they cried unto the LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them\u201d (Josh. 24:7a).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Beth D.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been reading in Joshua this morning.\u00a0\u00a0I do not remember knowing that Joshua fought for the Lord, clearing the land of enemies, until he was old, long after crossing into Canaan.\u00a0\u00a0And I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s the smoke of that burnt-up old upbringing in Christianity or just the flesh that made me say &#8220;Really? even [&hellip;]<\/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-12400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12400"}],"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=12400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}