{"id":293,"date":"2013-04-18T18:24:47","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T23:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/blog\/?p=293"},"modified":"2020-06-16T16:23:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T21:23:03","slug":"worn-out-but-still-trusting-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=293","title":{"rendered":"WORN OUT BUT STILL TRUSTING GOD!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The imagery mentioned in Ps. 119:83 is quite interesting.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Though I have become like a wineskin in the smoke, I do not forget God&#8217;s teachings.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I dug around a bit as I was baffled by the picture the Psalmist paints.\u00a0 It turns out that ancient people hung a wineskin inside a tent to absorb the smoke from the fire.\u00a0 As you can imagine, this kind of use led to the wineskin becoming dry, brittle, and of little use.\u00a0 This is the raw emotion of an honest believer who clings to God even when it seems insane.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>If you presently feel this way, know that you are in very good company.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The imagery mentioned in Ps. 119:83 is quite interesting. &#8220;Though I have become like a wineskin in the smoke, I do not forget God&#8217;s teachings.&#8221; I dug around a bit as I was baffled by the picture the Psalmist paints.\u00a0 It turns out that ancient people hung a wineskin inside a tent to absorb the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,23,9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-psalms","category-spiritual-life","category-suffering"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}