{"id":2564,"date":"2012-05-17T04:44:09","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T04:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=2564"},"modified":"2012-05-17T04:44:09","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T04:44:09","slug":"job-a-stepping-stone-to-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/2564\/job-a-stepping-stone-to-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Job a stepping stone to Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goingtojesus.com\/site\/php\/allthings.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">http:\/\/www.goingtojesus.com\/site\/php\/allthings.html<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hey,<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">When Token was talking about Job being a stepping stone to Jesus&#8217; story, that reminded me of when the Lord spoke to me relating both of their trials to each other. Before we had children, I was reading the first &#8220;All Things&#8221; book and the book of Job. I remember telling God, &#8220;Now, I just don&#8217;t like that, God. He (Job) was doing everything he was suppose to and it seems like You just started picking on him.&#8221; A couple of days later, the Lord said, &#8220;Well, if you don&#8217;t like what I did to Job, then you certainly don&#8217;t like what I did to Jesus.&#8221; That brought relief because He had spoken, but I still didn&#8217;t understand it. Later, the Lord gave you the message on &#8220;Beyond Perfection&#8221; and Elihu&#8217;s part in Job&#8217;s story. That gave us a glimpse of what God was doing with Job. When I reread the book of Job, I saw and felt all of the wonderful things in there about God and how insignificant all of our &#8220;rightness&#8221; is.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Cris<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; http:\/\/www.goingtojesus.com\/site\/php\/allthings.html Hey, When Token was talking about Job being a stepping stone to Jesus&#8217; story, that reminded me of when the Lord spoke to me relating both of their trials to each other. Before we had children, I was reading the first &#8220;All Things&#8221; book and the book of Job. I remember telling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564"}],"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=2564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}