{"id":4079,"date":"2021-01-11T10:38:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T18:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=4079"},"modified":"2021-01-11T10:38:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T18:38:04","slug":"he-could-attend-take-a-knee-and-raise-his-fists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2021\/he-could-attend-take-a-knee-and-raise-his-fists\/","title":{"rendered":"He Could Attend, Take a Knee, and Raise His Fists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He could time it to happen during the national anthem or the inaugural address or hail to the chief or the swearing in.<\/p>\n<p>And instead of that rabbit, it could be a certain red piece of head gear to plunk on his head. Or a certain blue flag to wave gently. Or both. Or all three, with the rabbit as a &#8220;welcome to the office&#8221; gift to Mr. Biden &#8212; a nice way to wish living good luck, quadrupled. \ud83d\ude2f \ud83d\ude44<\/p>\n<p>That makes staying away look like a plus.<\/p>\n<p>I just thought some perspective might help. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, though, I urge <!--more-->God&#8217;s people to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2008\/how-to-pray-for-them\/\" title=\"How to Pray for Them\">pray for President Trump, Vice President Pence, President-in-Waiting Biden, and VP-in-Waiting Harris<\/a>. They&#8217;ve all got a lot of people mad at them. It&#8217;s very dangerous out there. And treachery abounds. These are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2020\/elections-and-the-elect-the-darkness-deepens-but-light-shines-on\/\" title=\"Elections and the Elect: The Darkness Deepens But Light Shines On\">extremely perilous times<\/a> and we Christians are here for such times as these.<\/p>\n<p>I remind us all that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2020\/how-i-find-peace-amidst-all-the-pandemic-tyranny-fraud-and-instability\/\" title=\"How I Find Peace Amidst All the Pandemic, Tyranny, Fraud, and Instability\">God Almighty is sovereign and fully in control<\/a>. His purposes <em>are<\/em> being accomplished and He will <em>not<\/em> be thwarted. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2018\/my-shepherd-leads-me\/\" title=\"My Shepherd Leads Me\">Trust in Him<\/a> &#8212; He&#8217;s got green pastures for His sheep.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4080\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4080\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-content\/psalm-9-7-11.jpg\" alt=\"Verses from Psalm 9\" width=\"1020\" height=\"1200\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-content\/psalm-9-7-11.jpg 1020w, https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-content\/psalm-9-7-11-400x471.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-content\/psalm-9-7-11-870x1024.jpg 870w, https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-content\/psalm-9-7-11-128x150.jpg 128w, https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-content\/psalm-9-7-11-768x904.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4080\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I recommend you read Psalm 9. (Yes, right now.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And pull a rabbit out of his coat&#8217;s inner pocket.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/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,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"He Could Attend, Take a Knee, and Raise His Fists","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,8,999],"tags":[515,525,521,903],"class_list":["post-4079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-101","category-politics","category-soul-and-spirit","tag-encouragement","tag-good-news","tag-peace","tag-president"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-13N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}