{"id":364,"date":"2009-05-12T13:15:24","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T17:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/Correspondence\/?p=364"},"modified":"2009-05-12T13:15:24","modified_gmt":"2009-05-12T17:15:24","slug":"samuels-attitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/364\/samuels-attitude\/","title":{"rendered":"Samuel&#8217;s Attitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Brother John,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The story we read today in First Samuel was so touching. How that King Saul was moved by the fear of people, according to his own report and spared the life and influence of King Agag. For this, king Saul was rejected of the LORD and &#8220;Samuel\u00a0came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless, Samuel mourned for Saul&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">That\u00a0has always been a consistent trait for those who\u00a0were truly following the Spirit of God in the bible. Samuel pitied Saul for he knew Saul&#8217;s desperate position with God.\u00a0 He knew God was right, yet he mourned for Saul&#8217;s condition.\u00a0 How selfless that attitude was. \u00a0It was Samuel&#8217;s intimate relationship with God that gave him that pity for Saul, he couldn&#8217;t have felt such sorrow for him\u00a0and his unrighteous condition if he didn&#8217;t know of God&#8217;s most certain\u00a0existence and judgment. \u00a0His was a very mature spirit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Jerry<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">============<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em><span style=\"color:#333399;\">And a good example for us all, Brother Jerry.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em><span style=\"color:#333399;\">Pastor John<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Brother John, The story we read today in First Samuel was so touching. How that King Saul was moved by the fear of people, according to his own report and spared the life and influence of King Agag. For this, king Saul was rejected of the LORD and &#8220;Samuel\u00a0came no more to see Saul [&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-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364"}],"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=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}