{"id":161,"date":"2006-03-24T07:50:42","date_gmt":"2006-03-24T15:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=161"},"modified":"2007-07-22T12:44:09","modified_gmt":"2007-07-22T19:44:09","slug":"overloading-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2006\/overloading-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Overloading God?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><font color=brown>&#8220;Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves&#8221;<\/font><\/b> (Amos 2:13).<\/p>\n<p>Interesting verse! And heart-searching.<\/p>\n<p>I know the Almighty can&#8217;t be overloaded and overwhelmed.<\/p>\n<p>But my rejection of Him and His ways burdens Him tremendously.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, He can take it. I&#8217;m not concerned for Him at all in that regard.<\/p>\n<p>But why should I be a burdensome to Him? Like the person who wants his own way no matter how much worry, turmoil, and grief it means to those who care about him?<\/p>\n<p>I want to be a source of joy and satisfaction to God. I want to bring lightness to His heart.<\/p>\n<p>For that, as for all good things in life, I need His help.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves&#8221; (Amos 2:13). Interesting verse! And heart-searching. I know the Almighty can&#8217;t be overloaded and overwhelmed. But my rejection of Him and His ways burdens Him tremendously. Oh, He can take it. I&#8217;m not concerned for Him at all in [&hellip;]<!-- 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":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-amos","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry","9":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-2B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}