{"id":2116,"date":"2011-04-28T11:31:16","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T11:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=2116"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:27:34","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:27:34","slug":"a-plea-for-devotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=2116","title":{"rendered":"A Plea For Devotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us begin today to muse from Micah chapter 6-7. It is in\u00a0these chapters we will find the third message that Micah preaches. We have entitled it\u00a0<strong><em>a plea for devotion<\/em><\/strong>. In 6:1-8 I find <strong><em>the remembrance of His past devotion<\/em><\/strong>. The Lord calls the nation to court\u00a0and tells them\u00a0He has\u00a0a controversy with them. He reminds them\u00a0of taking them out of Egypt and over the Red Sea. In verse six He reminds them of changing Balin&#8217;s\u00a0curse to a blessing. Their response to all of this was not trust an obedience, but willful sin. In verses 6-7 they asked Him what should they do about their sin. The Lord&#8217;s response in verse eight\u00a0is what He requires is that they do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with the Lord. Let us pay close attention to verse eight\u00a0for it is there\u00a0we find a plea for our devotion. When we remember the good past dealings God has shown us\u00a0what could we do but trust and obey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us begin today to muse from Micah chapter 6-7. It is in\u00a0these chapters we will find the third message that Micah preaches. We have entitled it\u00a0a plea for devotion. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2116","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\/2116","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=2116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5910,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116\/revisions\/5910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}