{"id":399,"date":"2007-01-20T17:44:08","date_gmt":"2007-01-21T01:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=399"},"modified":"2007-01-20T17:44:29","modified_gmt":"2007-01-21T01:44:29","slug":"if-only-you-had-listened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2007\/if-only-you-had-listened\/","title":{"rendered":"If Only You Had Listened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And followed, too.<\/p>\n<p><b><font color=brown>&#8220;Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!&#8221;<\/font><\/b> (Psalm 81:13).<\/p>\n<p>As a people-shepherd, I have experienced at times this sort of sad regret. Once in a while I have wished that someone in my family-flock or my school-flock or my church-flock or my mission-flock would have listened to me better. They would have saved themselves some problems or grief.<\/p>\n<p>Then I wonder how often I have provoked in the Good Shepherd a verse 13 response.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, am I doing that now in some aspect of my life?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to do that to Him.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ll try again to listen. And to walk in His ways.<\/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>And followed, too. &#8220;Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!&#8221; (Psalm 81:13). As a people-shepherd, I have experienced at times this sort of sad regret. Once in a while I have wished that someone in my family-flock or my school-flock or my church-flock or my mission-flock would [&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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-psalms","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry","9":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-6r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","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=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}