{"id":3155,"date":"2012-05-29T11:05:28","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T11:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=3155"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:26:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:26:50","slug":"hiding-gods-blessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=3155","title":{"rendered":"Hiding God’s blessing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let us muse today from Luke 1:21-25 and the people whom God fills with the Holy Ghost and the birth of John<\/em><\/strong>. In verse 25 we are told that God is visiting Zacharias\u00a0and Elizabeth\u00a0with a child to take away their reproach. It was a great embarrassment for\u00a0a Jewish couple to be without a child in the days of Christ’s birth.\u00a0Zacharias doubts\u00a0the news\u00a0and Elizabeth\u00a0 seeks to hide it.\u00a0Oh how often we see the blessings of God as an inconvenience, wrong timing, or even a mistake. Let us be assured if we encounter anything on the road with Him, He has placed it there, caused it to be\u00a0and when it is done it shall be good so just enjoy it on the journey home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let us muse today from Luke 1:21-25 and the people whom God fills with the Holy Ghost and the birth of John. In verse 25 we are told that God […]<\/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-3155","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\/3155","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=3155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5607,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3155\/revisions\/5607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}