{"id":1495,"date":"2010-03-24T11:17:22","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T11:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=984"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:51","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:51","slug":"the-directing-wonder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1495","title":{"rendered":"The Directing Wonder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Let us muse today from Genesis 45:3-5,8,14-15 and <em>The Directing Wonder<\/em>. I lay before us <em>The Wonderful Pronouncement<\/em>. When Joseph reveals himself to his brothers he tells them &#8216;you didn&#8217;t send me down to Egypt, but God did.&#8217; In Genesis 50:20 he said &#8216;you meant it for evil but God meant it for good.&#8217; In this wonderful pronouncement his forgiveness is letting them off the hook. It is one thing to forgive but it is another to forget and a great step to let them off the hook. Years ago a man in the church where I pastored split out church in a million pieces. At the time the wound was hard. It let me to an Evangelistic ministry of\u00a0preaching 200 plus nights a year. I forgave him, forgot it, and feel like sometimes I should send him a thankyou note. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Genesis 45:3-5,8,14-15 and The Directing Wonder. I lay before us The Wonderful Pronouncement. When Joseph reveals himself to his brothers he tells them &#8216;you didn&#8217;t [&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-1495","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\/1495","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=1495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6229,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions\/6229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}