{"id":165,"date":"2010-12-06T21:58:36","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T21:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lloydstock.com\/blog\/?p=165"},"modified":"2011-01-18T20:44:02","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T20:44:02","slug":"december-6-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lloydstock.com\/blog\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"December 6, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ezekiel 20:10<\/strong><br \/>\nWherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.<\/p>\n<p>Are we to judge by this that the wilderness experience with its start\/stop behaviour was deliberate whereas we may have thought it was just par for the course given the task of getting nearly 2 million Jews from Egypt to Canaan. Indeed it is seems very clear from these verses that God made their journey longer than necessary in order to weed out those truly living by faith and those living by sight; a deliberate process then based on what God knew existed in the hearts of many of the apparently redeemed, idolatry and apostasy!<\/p>\n<p>Might it be true that despite being truly redeemed we in a similar way spend so much time in the wilderness before entering in on the promised land. Not perhaps that God deliberately withholds &#8216;the land&#8217; from us, that would be forcing the application. But that we spend much time in the dry places by our own failure to realise the truth of our inheritance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ezekiel 20:10 Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness. Are we to judge by this that the wilderness experience with its start\/stop behaviour was deliberate whereas we may have thought it was just par for the course given the task of getting nearly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional-2","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lloydstock.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lloydstock.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lloydstock.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lloydstock.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lloydstock.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.lloydstock.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"http:\/\/www.lloydstock.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lloydstock.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lloydstock.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lloydstock.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}