{"id":1659,"date":"2010-11-07T12:41:44","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T12:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1602"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:10","slug":"the-gray-haired-metaphor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1659","title":{"rendered":"THE Gray-haired Metaphor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Hosea 7:8-11 and <strong><em>the gray-haired\u00a0metaphor<\/em><\/strong>. Israel has mixed with the world and because of this the world has<strong><em> devoured their strength <\/em><\/strong>and their hair has turned gray and yet they know it not. In verse two\u00a0 we find it is all\u00a0<strong><em>wrapped\u00a0up in pride<\/em><\/strong>. How often has the world robbed us of our spiritual strength and we will not admit it. It is like a man who has gray hair and acts as if he sees it not.<strong><em> Old people are not always wise people and young people\u00a0are not always strong people<\/em><\/strong>. Let us be careful lest our closeness to the world\u00a0saps us of our spiritual\u00a0discernment and ability \u00a0to get a hold of the Lord.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Hosea 7:8-11 and the gray-haired\u00a0metaphor. Israel has mixed with the world and because of this the world has devoured their strength and their hair has [&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-1659","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\/1659","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=1659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6056,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/revisions\/6056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}