{"id":97,"date":"2005-12-21T07:15:22","date_gmt":"2005-12-21T15:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=97"},"modified":"2008-07-22T08:52:24","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T15:52:24","slug":"wherever-he-wants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2005\/wherever-he-wants\/","title":{"rendered":"Wherever He Wants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><font color=brown>&#8220;Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth&#8221;<\/font><\/b> (James 3:4).<\/p>\n<p>I imagine a big sailing ship with its many big sails. To this scene I add a powerful wind, driving this vessel across the ocean. Will the ship go wherever the wind compels it to go?<\/p>\n<p>Only if it doesn&#8217;t have a rudder&#8230;attached to a helm&#8230;firmly held by a strong hand&#8230;directed by a purposeful mind.<\/p>\n<p>Now my mind wanders somewhat to wonder &#8212; how easily does God steer me?<\/p>\n<p>Do His gentle nudges suffice? Or must He exert greater force?<\/p>\n<p><b><font color=brown>&#8220;&#8230;They are governed by a very small helm along the route he who governs them wants&#8221;<\/font><\/b> (my translation of Reina-Valera 1960).<\/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 also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth&#8221; (James 3:4). I imagine a big sailing ship with its many big sails. To this scene I add a powerful wind, driving this vessel across [&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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-97","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-james","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry","9":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-1z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","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=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}