{"id":9047,"date":"2017-04-07T15:55:39","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T15:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=9047"},"modified":"2017-04-07T15:55:39","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T15:55:39","slug":"wayward-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/9047\/wayward-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Wayward Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">When I read this in Jeremiah, it made me think of our wayward children and the love God has for them.\u00a0 I pray they come to themselves while there is a time for repenting.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I have heard Ephraim grieving, \u2018You have disciplined me, and I was disciplined, like an untrained calf; bring me back that I may be restored, for you are the Lord my God. For after I had turned away, I relented, and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh; I was ashamed, and I was confounded, because I bore the disgrace of my youth.\u2019 Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he my darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I do remember him still. Therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him, declares the Lord.\u201d <\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Jeremiah 31:18-20<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span> <span style=\"color:#000000;\">Bess <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I read this in Jeremiah, it made me think of our wayward children and the love God has for them.\u00a0 I pray they come to themselves while there is a time for repenting. I have heard Ephraim grieving, \u2018You have disciplined me, and I was disciplined, like an untrained calf; bring me back that [&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-9047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9047"}],"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=9047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}