{"id":22,"date":"2012-10-05T13:03:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T20:03:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-04-04T13:50:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T20:50:34","slug":"our-wayward-selves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"Our wayward selves"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been reading one of those daily “one-year” Bibles for a number of years. They walk you through the Bible in one year. They give you a little Old Testament, a little New Testament, a little Psalms and a little Proverbs each day.<\/p>\n

This really gives one a clear contrast between the Old and New Testaments. The New Testament is full of the love of Christ. All about Him wanting to give us new life.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the Old Testament seems to paint a very different picture of God. The God of the Old Testament seems to really be a jealous God who is not always that merciful toward His people when they go astray.<\/span><\/p>\n

So as I read, I’ve been trying to see some sort of balance between the two seemingly different pictures of God.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Yesterday I ran across this in Jeremiah.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“My wayward children,” says the LORD, “come back to me, and I will heal your wayward hearts.”<\/i> Jeremiah 3:22<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This verse comes after a fairly lengthy description of how unfaithful Israel had been to God. In spite of that, God wanted them back.<\/p>\n

The neat thing about this is, God appears to be saying that if they return to Him, He will essentially help them to be less wayward.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Even though I may not want to do what is right all the time, I would like to want to. I think that as we turn to God, He helps us want to.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been reading one of those daily “one-year” Bibles for a number of years. They walk you through the Bible in one year. They give you a little Old Testament, a little New Testament, a little Psalms and a little Proverbs each day. This really gives one a clear contrast between the Old and New … Continue reading “Our wayward selves”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-inspirational"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328,"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}