{"id":5371,"date":"2014-05-20T00:05:52","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T07:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/?p=5371"},"modified":"2014-05-19T23:40:22","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T06:40:22","slug":"5371","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2014\/05\/20\/5371\/","title":{"rendered":"Patiently Waiting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Habakkuk had asked God to do something about the misbehaving people of Israel and God had promised that he\u2019d send the Babylonians to judge them\u2014which made no sense to the prophet since he knew the Babylonians were far worse and much more deserving of God\u2019s judgment than the Israelites.  He couldn\u2019t wrap his head around how God could use greater evil to judge a lesser evil.  But he decided he would just trust God, even if it made no sense to do so. He wrote: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>I heard and my heart pounded, <br \/>\nmy lips quivered at the sound; <br \/>\ndecay crept into my bones, <br \/>\nand my legs trembled. <br \/>\nYet I will wait patiently for the day of calamity <br \/>\nto come on the nation invading us. <br \/>\nThough the fig tree does not bud <br \/>\nand there are no grapes on the vines, <br \/>\nthough the olive crop fails <br \/>\nand the fields produce no food, <br \/>\nthough there are no sheep in the pen <br \/>\nand no cattle in the stalls, <br \/>\nyet I will rejoice in the LORD, <br \/>\nI will be joyful in God my Savior. <br \/>\nThe Sovereign LORD is my strength; <br \/>\nhe makes my feet like the feet of a deer, <br \/>\nhe enables me to tread on the heights. (Habakkuk 3:16-19)<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sometimes life doesn&#8217;t make sense.  That&#8217;s no reason to give up on God.<\/p>\n<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img src=\"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-15.png\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Habakkuk had asked God to do something about the misbehaving people of Israel and God had promised that he\u2019d send the Babylonians to judge them\u2014which made no sense to the prophet since he knew the Babylonians were far worse and &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2014\/05\/20\/5371\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[18,17,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5371"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5371"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5377,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5371\/revisions\/5377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}