{"id":2175,"date":"2011-05-22T09:59:40","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T09:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=2175"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:27:33","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:27:33","slug":"the-prophets-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=2175","title":{"rendered":"The Prophet&#8217;s Anxiety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us\u00a0begin to muse today from\u00a0Habakkuk 1:1-11 and a section I have entitled <strong><em>the prophet&#8217;s \u00a0anxiety<\/em><\/strong>. I noticed in this text\u00a0<strong><em>Habakkuk \u00a0is anxious over what he sees<\/em><\/strong>. In verses 2-3\u00a0Habakkuk uses words like burden, violence, grievance, spoiling, and contention to describe what he sees. What he sees turns into a prayer which is a <strong><em>cry<\/em><\/strong> of desperation in verse two. There are two different words translated cry. One is a simple request for help\u00a0and the second is a loud scream of desperation. The psalmist used the word\u00a0O to\u00a0describe this scream of desperation. <strong><em>Has the Lord put an\u00a0O in your prayer lately?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us\u00a0begin to muse today from\u00a0Habakkuk 1:1-11 and a section I have entitled the prophet&#8217;s \u00a0anxiety. I noticed in this text\u00a0Habakkuk \u00a0is anxious over what he sees. In verses 2-3\u00a0Habakkuk [&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-2175","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\/2175","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=2175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5892,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175\/revisions\/5892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}