{"id":1656,"date":"2010-11-04T10:54:29","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T10:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1591"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:10","slug":"memorial-metaphors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1656","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Metaphors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us\u00a0muse from Hosea 6:4\u00a0 today and some of <strong><em>the metaphors <\/em><\/strong>Hosea uses to describe Israel. As we meditate on these metaphors let us be watchful to see if there are similarities in our walk with the Lord. In 6:4 the Lord speaks of their <strong><em>goodness<\/em><\/strong>. The word goodness speaks of their<strong><em> virtues <\/em><\/strong>before the Lord and their <strong><em>devotion <\/em><\/strong>toward the Lord. He said their devotions remind him of <strong><em>a morning cloud<\/em><\/strong>. Oh how a morning cloud gives us the\u00a0hope of the\u00a0 rain shower\u00a0in a dry season only to float away when the sun burns through. He said their devotion is like the early <strong><em>dew<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0Oh how the early dew can look as\u00a0a sparkling jewel only to\u00a0disappear quickly when the sun rises. What is our devotion to\u00a0 Him and our\u00a0virtue before Him like? Does it quickly dissolved under the\u00a0heat of a troubling day?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us\u00a0muse from Hosea 6:4\u00a0 today and some of the metaphors Hosea uses to describe Israel. As we meditate on these metaphors let us be watchful to see if there [&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-1656","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\/1656","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=1656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6059,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions\/6059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}