{"id":1639,"date":"2010-10-18T10:20:50","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T10:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1539"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:11","slug":"i-will-take-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1639","title":{"rendered":"I Will Take Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Hosea 2:16-17\u00a0 and a\u00a0third<strong><em>\u00a0I will\u00a0statement <\/em><\/strong>from our Lord&#8217;s last will and testament. The statement is<strong><em>\u00a0I will\u00a0take away<\/em><\/strong>.<strong><em> Baalim <\/em><\/strong>in those days was a great form of idolatry.\u00a0Oh how we as the people of God put so many things before our God and they become a point of worship, because of the importance we place on them.<strong><em> Balli\u00a0means master<\/em><\/strong>. The things we put before our God causes them\u00a0to be the\u00a0master over us. In verse 17 God takes\u00a0her bent\u00a0and desire for the things of this world away. He says she will call me now\u00a0<strong><em>Ishii\u00a0which means my husband<\/em><\/strong>. Lord come today and take my bent and love for this world away and replace it with a strong love for only you my husband to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Hosea 2:16-17\u00a0 and a\u00a0third\u00a0I will\u00a0statement from our Lord&#8217;s last will and testament. The statement is\u00a0I will\u00a0take away. Baalim in those days was a great form [&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-1639","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\/1639","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=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6076,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions\/6076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}