{"id":13725,"date":"2023-02-24T14:43:04","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T14:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=13725"},"modified":"2023-02-24T14:43:04","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T14:43:04","slug":"fear-of-grizzlies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/13725\/fear-of-grizzlies\/","title":{"rendered":"Fear of Grizzlies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Good Morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">I feel like I am coming up short here.\u00a0 I am fearful of grizzly bears, but in this tract it is stated,\u00a0\u201cYou will not fear the beast of the earth.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Am I misunderstanding what\u00a0\u201cbeast\u201d\u00a0is referring to, or is this an example of the faith Job possessed?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Here is the excerpt from Tract #23:*<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u201cWe are also told that \u2018He will deliver you in six troubles; yea, in seven, evil shall not touch you.\u00a0 In famine, He will redeem you from death, and in war, from the power of the sword.\u00a0 You will be hidden from the lash of the tongue, and you will not fear destruction when it comes.\u00a0 At destruction and hunger will you laugh,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000\">and you will not fear the beast of the earth<\/span>\u2019 (Job 5:19\u201322).\u00a0 Don\u2019t wallow in the mire of your problem, but \u2018girding up the loins of\u00a0<em>y<\/em>our mind, being sober-minded, set\u00a0<em>y<\/em>our hope fully on the grace to be brought to\u00a0<em>y<\/em>ou at the revelation of Jesus Christ.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Thanks for the help,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Wendell<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">==========<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #0013a3\"><em>Neither you nor I have a fear of grizzly bears because neither of us have ever been confronted by one.\u00a0\u00a0You may imagine you would fear a grizzly bear\u00a0if you met one, but if you ever really did meet a grizzly, it would only be by the will of God, and you do not know how Jesus would make you feel in that moment.\u00a0 You may discover that you want to hug the beast instead of\u00a0run\u00a0from it.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #0013a3\"><em>Let&#8217;s wait on God, and not judge ourselves by what we imagine we would feel or how we would act in various situations.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #0013a3\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">* <span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"https:\/\/goingtojesus.com\/gtj_tracts.html?tname=tract-023-cryrighteous\">Going to Jesus.com Tracts &#8211; The Cry of the Righteous<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John, Good Morning. I feel like I am coming up short here.\u00a0 I am fearful of grizzly bears, but in this tract it is stated,\u00a0\u201cYou will not fear the beast of the earth.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Am I misunderstanding what\u00a0\u201cbeast\u201d\u00a0is referring to, or is this an example of the faith Job possessed? Here is the excerpt from Tract #23:* [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13725"}],"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=13725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}