{"id":1634,"date":"2010-10-08T11:26:19","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T11:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1522"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:12","slug":"god-of-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1634","title":{"rendered":"God Of Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us\u00a0muse today from\u00a0Hosea\u00a01:3-9 and\u00a0the name of Hosea&#8217;s\u00a0children.\u00a0We see through these\u00a0names \u00a0that <em><strong>God is a God of grace<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0His first child was named\u00a0<em><strong>Jeezreel which means God scatters<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0Hosea&#8217;s second child a daughter was named<em><strong> Loruhamah which\u00a0means not loved<\/strong><\/em>. The third child<em><strong>\u00a0Loamni means not my people<\/strong><\/em> You may asked where do you see the grace of God\u00a0in these\u00a0titles? In the Old Testament Hosea \u00a0is the word for Jesus of the New Testament. <em><strong>Hosea means\u00a0one who opens wide, sets free, and delivers. <\/strong><\/em>When our\u00a0Hosea, Jesus came to us\u00a0He will changed\u00a0us from a\u00a0scattered people\u00a0to God&#8217;s gathered people.\u00a0He changes us from\u00a0not loved to the beloved ones and not my people to the\u00a0blessed people of God. No wonder we find grace to be so amazing. We find in verse seven that this grace is shown to us by the mercy of God. Mercy is God withholding from us what we deserve. I&#8217;m glad for my\u00a0Hosea Jesus Christ who has caused me to say, what a wonderful change in my heart has been wroth since Jesus came into my heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us\u00a0muse today from\u00a0Hosea\u00a01:3-9 and\u00a0the name of Hosea&#8217;s\u00a0children.\u00a0We see through these\u00a0names \u00a0that God is a God of grace.\u00a0His first child was named\u00a0Jeezreel which means God scatters.\u00a0Hosea&#8217;s second child a daughter [&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-1634","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\/1634","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=1634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6080,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions\/6080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}