{"id":1415,"date":"2009-12-02T12:47:13","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T12:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=743"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:56","slug":"jacobs-plenty-is-empty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1415","title":{"rendered":"Jacob&#8217;s Plenty Is Empty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Let us muse today from Genesis chapters 29-31 and the fact that <em>Jacob got plenty, but he left empty.<\/em> Jacob&#8217;s greatest object of <em>love became his greatest object of detest<\/em>, because Rachel was barren. In 29:32-34 Leah&#8217;s love is rejected and Rachel&#8217;s love is detested. In chapter 31:1-35, Jacob becomes very rich with children and possessions, but felt so empty. Deception when unconfessed\u00a0leaves us so empty. Jacob is left with this idea as he goes home <em>&#8220;he got what he wanted, but lost all he had&#8221;.<\/em> Be careful of things we have to struggle to get or keep up. You can rest assured our <em>personal manipulation<\/em> got them and not <em>His providential manifestation<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Genesis chapters 29-31 and the fact that Jacob got plenty, but he left empty. Jacob&#8217;s greatest object of love became his greatest object of detest, [&hellip;]<\/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-1415","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\/1415","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=1415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6311,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions\/6311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}