{"id":1679,"date":"2010-12-01T12:10:56","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T12:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1671"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:09","slug":"types-of-discipline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1679","title":{"rendered":"Types Of Discipline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us\u00a0muse today from Hosea 13:7-16 and<strong><em> the types of discipline<\/em><\/strong>. Because of\u00a0Israel&#8217;s sin God showed several metaphors to describe the type of discipline He would use to\u00a0correct this wayward nation. In verse 7-8 the Lord says He will come as <strong><em>a lion, leopard, and a bear robbed of her babies<\/em><\/strong>. These are all ferocious animals and especially a mother who has been robbed of her babies. I cannot imagine our Lord coming up on the USA in such a fashion. These metaphors should help us to stand clear of the least of sin. In verse 13 He mentions \u00a0the metaphor\u00a0of<strong><em> a travailing\u00a0mother\u00a0in child-birth<\/em><\/strong>. This picture is the worst of pain. God tells this nation because of their sin\u00a0He will\u00a0bring the hardest of\u00a0pain. Let us beware of sin\u00a0for surely we will reap the whirl\u00a0wind\u00a0of all the sins we sow in our life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us\u00a0muse today from Hosea 13:7-16 and the types of discipline. Because of\u00a0Israel&#8217;s sin God showed several metaphors to describe the type of discipline He would use to\u00a0correct this wayward [&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-1679","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\/1679","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=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6036,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions\/6036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}