{"id":1644,"date":"2010-10-23T10:45:23","date_gmt":"2010-10-23T10:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1556"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:11","slug":"probation-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1644","title":{"rendered":"Probation Period"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us in muse today from Hosea 3:3 and the theme of <strong><em>a probation period<\/em><\/strong>. After Hosea buys\u00a0Gomer off the\u00a0slave\u00a0market there is a time of probation and for her to prove herself. It would be wonderful if the church would make people prove themselves before they quickly let them be baptized and join the church. She was\u00a0<strong><em>to abide with him\u00a0for many days<\/em><\/strong>. The word\u00a0<strong><em>abide means to sit still, to dwell in quiet, and to be\u00a0at home in<\/em><\/strong>. It reminds me\u00a0of the\u00a0thought be still and know that thou art\u00a0God. She was to have<strong><em>\u00a0eyes for no other than Hosea<\/em><\/strong> and he would be for her alone.\u00a0Oh, how our husband to be\u00a0Christ demands more from us than we are willing to think up on or admit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us in muse today from Hosea 3:3 and the theme of a probation period. After Hosea buys\u00a0Gomer off the\u00a0slave\u00a0market there is a time of probation and for her to [&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-1644","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\/1644","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=1644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6071,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644\/revisions\/6071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}