{"id":1660,"date":"2010-11-08T12:44:08","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T12:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1604"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:10","slug":"the-silly-dove-metaphor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1660","title":{"rendered":"THE Silly Dove Metaphor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Hosea 7:11-14 and <strong><em>the silly dove metaphor<\/em><\/strong>. God sees\u00a0Israel\u00a0as a\u00a0silly dove\u00a0making alliance\u00a0 first with\u00a0Egypt and then with Assyria. They are always seeking the help of others. In verse 14a \u00a0God says <strong><em>they never cry unto me<\/em><\/strong>. Because of their foolish desire to seek help from all but the Lord, <strong><em>He leaves them on their own bed\u00a0howling in\u00a0anguish. <\/em><\/strong>Let us as God&#8217;s people be able to say with the Psalmist my heart is fixed on\u00a0Thee\u00a0O\u00a0Lord, for I am trusting in Thee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Hosea 7:11-14 and the silly dove metaphor. God sees\u00a0Israel\u00a0as a\u00a0silly dove\u00a0making alliance\u00a0 first with\u00a0Egypt and then with Assyria. They are always seeking the help of [&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-1660","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\/1660","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=1660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6055,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions\/6055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}