{"id":1637,"date":"2010-10-16T11:01:54","date_gmt":"2010-10-16T11:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1535"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:12","slug":"i-will-allure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1637","title":{"rendered":"I Will Allure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Hosea\u00a0 2: 14 and the manifestation of God&#8217;s love through the enactment of<strong><em> His last will and statement<\/em><\/strong>. The first\u00a0I will\u00a0statement is <strong><em>I will allure<\/em><\/strong>. The word\u00a0allure means to\u00a0entice, to woo,\u00a0or draw away. What will he\u00a0draw this bride into? He says he will\u00a0allure her into the <strong><em>wilderness. <\/em><\/strong>The word means a place of being alone, desolate, and a place of great testing and temptation. Our\u00a0Lord often arranges these situation in our life to bring us to a place of crying out to Him with our undivided attention. I love what he says next.\u00a0Once she is in the wilderness\u00a0the Lord\u00a0speaks <strong><em>comfortably<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0to her. The word means to speak with all the deep feelings of the heart. Once He has\u00a0allured her into this desolate place He shares with her His heart. Is that not just like our God? I am so glad I am\u00a0a part of\u00a0His last will and testament. My, what an inheritance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Hosea\u00a0 2: 14 and the manifestation of God&#8217;s love through the enactment of His last will and statement. The first\u00a0I will\u00a0statement is I will allure. [&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-1637","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\/1637","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=1637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6078,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions\/6078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}