{"id":13868,"date":"2023-05-09T00:44:08","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T00:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=13868"},"modified":"2023-05-09T00:44:08","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T00:44:08","slug":"our-suffering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/13868\/our-suffering\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Suffering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">We have been reading in 1Samuel and 2Samuel for the Old Testament course.*\u00a0 I did not remember how much David went through, or how much raiding he and his men did.\u00a0 David did have a lot of blood on his hands, being the warrior he was!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">As I read through this, I have been trying to picture what daily life for him and his men in those years, as well as the Israelites, would have been like.\u00a0 What a silly Christian thought it is, to believe that God will not put you through things.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">It just strikes me how dangerous that thought can be for God&#8217;s people.\u00a0 If David had thought like that, surely he would have given up on seeking after God, long before he met Bathsheba. I haven\u2019t got to that part yet, but Jerry and I were talking about how David must have felt after going through everything he did with God, and then to have sinned so greatly.\u00a0 Hard to imagine the feelings he must have felt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Anyway just thinking out loud&#8230;.with you! <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-10223\" src=\"https:\/\/pjhmail.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/05\/smiley-face2.png\" alt=\"smiley face2\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Beth D.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">* <a href=\"https:\/\/goingtojesus.com\/gtj_otcourse-1010.html\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">https:\/\/goingtojesus.com\/gtj_otcourse-1010.html<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have been reading in 1Samuel and 2Samuel for the Old Testament course.*\u00a0 I did not remember how much David went through, or how much raiding he and his men did.\u00a0 David did have a lot of blood on his hands, being the warrior he was! As I read through this, I have been trying [&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-13868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13868"}],"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=13868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}