{"id":3994,"date":"2019-04-18T11:45:32","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T16:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=3994"},"modified":"2019-04-18T11:45:32","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T16:45:32","slug":"god-youre-wasting-your-time-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=3994","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;GOD, YOU&#8217;RE WASTING YOUR TIME AND . . .&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Just quit wasting time trying to convert me to a cult. I&#8217;m not interested.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That is a recent text from a long-time atheist friend amid ongoing conversations about Truth&#8212;Jesus and the Bible.<\/p>\n<p>The comment was addressed to me&#8212;but in reality, to God:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jesus, don&#8217;t waste your blood and love on me&#8212;I&#8217;ll just laugh and spit on it, and on anyone who believes in you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is frightening to know that &#8220;He Who sits in the heavens laughs, and keeps them in derision.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Just quit wasting time trying to convert me to a cult. I&#8217;m not interested.&#8221; That is a recent text from a long-time atheist friend amid ongoing conversations about Truth&#8212;Jesus and the Bible. The comment was addressed to me&#8212;but in reality, to God: &#8220;Jesus, don&#8217;t waste your blood and love on me&#8212;I&#8217;ll just laugh and spit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith_based","category-inspire_lifter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3995,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994\/revisions\/3995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}