{"id":2454,"date":"2011-09-09T10:50:11","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T10:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=2454"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:27:27","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:27:27","slug":"should-there-be-a-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=2454","title":{"rendered":"Should There Be A Fast?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Zechariah\u00a0chapter 7 were the Jews asked the Prophet an interesting question. They had four annual feasts to commemorate recent tragic event&#8217;s. Each one of these events were celebrated with <strong><em>a fast<\/em><\/strong>. They ask the Lord should they continue these fasts.\u00a0It would be like us having\u00a0a fast to remember 911. The Lord ask them did you do it\u00a0while in captivity? Did you\u00a0do it for yourself or for me? Our Lord tells them in verses 10-14\u00a0that they would be better off to show obedience to Him. They would be better off to show mercy and compassion to the widows, fatherless, and strangers. I fear a lot of what we do in our religious circles\u00a0is done for us and not for Him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Zechariah\u00a0chapter 7 were the Jews asked the Prophet an interesting question. They had four annual feasts to commemorate recent tragic event&#8217;s. Each one of these [&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-2454","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\/2454","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=2454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5810,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454\/revisions\/5810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}