{"id":2186,"date":"2011-05-26T11:44:05","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T11:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=2186"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:27:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:27:32","slug":"the-helplessness-of-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=2186","title":{"rendered":"The Helplessness Of Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Habakkuk 1: 14-15 in a section I have entitled <strong><em>the prophet&#8217;s anxiety<\/em><\/strong>. In the midst of <strong><em>the counsel for anxiety<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Habakkuk rest in three\u00a0\u00a0great truths. One we have already pondered and it was <strong><em>the holiness of God.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Today\u00a0Habakkuk will\u00a0shows us <strong><em>the helplessness of man<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0Habakkuk says when the Babylonians come in we will be like helpless\u00a0fish to be hooked or netted. The false prophet said it would never happen but Habakkuk said not only will it happen but in verse 15 the enemy would take great pleasure in Israel&#8217;s fall.\u00a0Oh how America thinks we can never be taken. Pride always goes before a fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Habakkuk 1: 14-15 in a section I have entitled the prophet&#8217;s anxiety. In the midst of the counsel for anxiety\u00a0Habakkuk rest in three\u00a0\u00a0great truths. One [&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-2186","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\/2186","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=2186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5888,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions\/5888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}