{"id":1722,"date":"2010-12-17T12:03:02","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T12:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1722"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:08","slug":"rend-your-hearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1722","title":{"rendered":"Rend Your Hearts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Joel 2:12-17 in a section I have entitled <strong><em>a purposeful day<\/em><\/strong>. We told you a day or so ago the Lord during this day would ask\u00a0them to do three things. One we have already considered was blow the trumpet. Today we will see that He asked them to<strong><em> rend\u00a0their hearts<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0It would very simple for them\u00a0to put on sackcloth and\u00a0prostrate themselves\u00a0in the religious activity, but here He had asked\u00a0them to do something that only He can do in and through them. <strong><em>The sacrifice of God or a broken spirit, a broken and contrite heart these\u00a0O,\u00a0God you will not despise. <\/em><\/strong>Our Lord is certainly drawn to a humble heart of repentance,but do\u00a0remember repentance is a gift from God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Joel 2:12-17 in a section I have entitled a purposeful day. We told you a day or so ago the Lord during this day would [&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-1722","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\/1722","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=1722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6022,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722\/revisions\/6022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}