{"id":7349,"date":"2018-01-17T05:24:50","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T10:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7349"},"modified":"2018-01-17T05:26:11","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T10:26:11","slug":"dismal-theology-related-tweet-for-the-day-58","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7349","title":{"rendered":"Dismal theology-related tweet for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">God knows every painful detail of what you\u2019re going through, and he\u2019s working as hard for you as he ever has. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/S9aneTW88O\">https:\/\/t.co\/S9aneTW88O<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Desiring God (@desiringGod) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/desiringGod\/status\/953492834535071744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 17, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Picture this: You&#8217;re a single mom whose deadbeat man has taken a powder because he just can&#8217;t hack the kid crying all the time; you&#8217;re $10.00\/hour job might be eliminated in the next round of layoffs; threatening bill collectors call every day, and there&#8217;s no relief in sight for that but the phone company is probably going to terminate your service any day; and you&#8217;re out of formula, out of pocket change, and payday is a week away.<\/p>\n<p>Now, along comes some smarmy preacher to say, Hooray!, The Creator Of The Whole Big Universe is working hard for you.  That He who spoke the universe into existence; and gave uncountable billions of galaxies their uncountable billions of stars; and took care to be certain their would be millions and millions of varieties of plants and animals for us to eat on this insignificant mote of a planet at the edge of a relatively small galaxy &#8230; Why, He&#8217;s working hard for you!<\/p>\n<p>Who knew that resolving that poor frustrated mom&#8217;s troubles are a match for all that?  Or maybe it&#8217;s the case that &#8220;working as hard for you as he ever has&#8221; means he&#8217;s never lifted a finger on <i>anybody&#8217;s<\/i> behalf?<\/p>\n<p>Truly, He works in Mysterious Ways.  Or doesn&#8217;t work at all.  Or something.  I guess he works for at least preachers, because you never see one hanging from a light post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God knows every painful detail of what you\u2019re going through, and he\u2019s working as hard for you as he ever has. https:\/\/t.co\/S9aneTW88O &mdash; Desiring God (@desiringGod) January 17, 2018 Picture this: You&#8217;re a single mom whose deadbeat man has taken &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7349\">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":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7349"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7349"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7352,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7349\/revisions\/7352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}