{"id":1493,"date":"2010-03-22T11:53:35","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T11:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=980"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:51","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:51","slug":"the-directing-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1493","title":{"rendered":"The Directing Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Let us muse today from Genesis 37 and Joseph and <em>The Directing Of His Life<\/em> by a Sovereign God towards a Wounded Spirit. In verses 14-17 I find <em>&#8216;The Interposing Work&#8217;<\/em>. The word &#8216;interpose&#8217; means to inject ones self into a situation with the purpose of directing. Joseph found himself in Hebron which means intimate oneness. He was sent by his earthly father to Shechem\u00a0which means a place of unbearable pain and burden. The Bible tells us in verse 15 that &#8216;a certain man&#8217; led him down to Dotham to meet with the greatest wound upon an innocent soul. The phrase &#8216;certain man&#8217; is our word for husbandman. In John 15 Jesus said, &#8216;I am the vine, ye are the branches, my Father is the husbandman.&#8217; The Father is the director who led Joseph in the time of a great wound. What a blessing to know, in the times of our worse, it is not out of control but under the direction of God.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Genesis 37 and Joseph and The Directing Of His Life by a Sovereign God towards a Wounded Spirit. In verses 14-17 I find &#8216;The Interposing [&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-1493","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\/1493","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=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6231,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions\/6231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}