{"id":1661,"date":"2010-11-09T12:01:23","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T12:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1607"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:10","slug":"the-deceitful-bow-metaphor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1661","title":{"rendered":"The Deceitful Bow Metaphor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from\u00a0Hosea 7:16 and<strong><em> the deceit full bow metaphor<\/em><\/strong>. The word\u00a0deceitful in our text\u00a0means crooked. Because Israel has\u00a0lived for themselves God has caused them to go into battle with a crooked\u00a0bow. It matters not how good a shot you are, you sure won&#8217;t hit anything\u00a0with\u00a0a crooked bow. When we are full of rebellion and failed to draw nigh to\u00a0God He has much in His arsenal to humiliate us\u00a0and cause us to have a desire to draw nigh to Him\u00a0Let us today be able to say with the songwriter <strong><em>nothing between my soul\u00a0and the Savior I see<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from\u00a0Hosea 7:16 and the deceit full bow metaphor. The word\u00a0deceitful in our text\u00a0means crooked. Because Israel has\u00a0lived for themselves God has caused them to go into [&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-1661","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\/1661","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=1661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6054,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions\/6054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}