{"id":2867,"date":"2012-01-29T10:46:46","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T10:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=2867"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:26:54","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:26:54","slug":"distancing-oneself-from-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=2867","title":{"rendered":"Distancing Oneself From God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Jonah 1:6-12 and <strong><em>Jonah&#8217;s foolish disobedience in his storm<\/em><\/strong>. Let us look at<strong><em> <\/em><em>distancing oneself from God<\/em><\/strong>. Jonah is sleeping in apathy and the\u00a0captain awakens him to pray for their predicament. The men on board want\u00a0to know if the problem is on board and they choose lots and the lot falls on Jonah. The men on board or exceedingly afraid\u00a0because Jonah has told\u00a0them that he was running from God. Jonah told them to throw him overboard and the sea\u00a0would become calm.\u00a0Oh how\u00a0our God has ways of cornering up those for whom He loves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Jonah 1:6-12 and Jonah&#8217;s foolish disobedience in his storm. Let us look at distancing oneself from God. Jonah is sleeping in apathy and the\u00a0captain awakens [&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-2867","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\/2867","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=2867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5695,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867\/revisions\/5695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}