{"id":1411,"date":"2009-11-20T12:00:38","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T12:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=722"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:57","slug":"jacobs-posterity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1411","title":{"rendered":"Jacob’s Posterity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let us muse for the next few days from Genesis 38 and Jacob’s Posterity<\/em>. How we all want the generations of our family to turn out right but seldom do what the Bible tells us to do. The word for training our children is given in Deuteronomy 6 when Moses says, ‘And these words which I command thee this day shall be in thine heart. And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children and shalt talk of them when thou sittest\u00a0in thine house and when\u00a0thou walkest\u00a0by the way, and when thou liest down and when thou riseth\u00a0up.’ These verses give a good argument for family altar, Christian School, and home school. This is the least we can do but even this doesn’t assure a good outcome. God still does with individuals as He pleases. We can plan but He still purposes. I remember a lady in our area became a vegetarian to keep her child\u00a0from Ecoli. The child caught it at a water park and died. We plan, He purposes <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let us muse for the next few days from Genesis 38 and Jacob’s Posterity. How we all want the generations of our family to turn out right but seldom do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-musings-from-the-motel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6319,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions\/6319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}