{"id":175,"date":"2014-08-15T10:44:59","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T15:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.burningchaff.info\/?p=175"},"modified":"2017-05-28T09:49:17","modified_gmt":"2017-05-28T14:49:17","slug":"are-we-there-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.burningchaff.com\/?p=175","title":{"rendered":"Are we there yet???"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.burningchaff.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/wpid-img_20140815_104131.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_20140815_104131.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.burningchaff.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/wpid-img_20140815_104131.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gen 50:19 &#8211; 21 NIV &#8220;19But Joseph said to them, \u201cDon\u2019t be afraid. Am I in the place of God? 20You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives. 21So then, don\u2019t be afraid. I will provide for you and your children.\u201d And he reassured them and spoke kindly to them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Have you arrived? Are you in God&#8217;s place? Joseph was subjected to great evil in life due to the treachery of his brothers. Yet through it all his heart remained focused on obedience to God. Culminating in him become the most powerful man in Egypt and saving lives. He understood who the footsteps in the sand belonged to and rather than filling his heart with vengeance he allowed God to repay the evil with good. <\/p>\n<p>There will be trials and severe struggle in life. People will do evil things to you. If we take our eyes off God and the plan He has for us (and He does have a plan for everyone) and focus on or repaying the evil we will miss it and get side tracked. Grow through what you go through and you will arrive at God&#8217;s place (Romans 8:28-39).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gen 50:19 &#8211; 21 NIV &#8220;19But Joseph said to them, \u201cDon\u2019t be afraid. Am I in the place of God? 20You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives. 21So then, don\u2019t be afraid. I will provide for you and your &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.burningchaff.com\/?p=175\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Are we there yet???&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":821772,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burningchaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burningchaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burningchaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burningchaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/821772"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burningchaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.burningchaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176,"href":"https:\/\/www.burningchaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions\/176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burningchaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burningchaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burningchaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}