{"id":6172,"date":"2024-01-31T02:35:46","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T08:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=6172"},"modified":"2024-01-31T02:36:44","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T08:36:44","slug":"what-were-we-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=6172","title":{"rendered":"WHAT WERE WE THINKING ?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When we look back on 2024, what will we think and say and feel ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; &#8220;Remember how good things were in 2023.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; &#8220;Our fear, apprehension of imminent danger, was right, justified, realized, in events of 2024.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; &#8220;I wish someone had told us how to get ready for the disasters, The Big One terrorist attack.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; &#8220;If only&#8212;If preachers had talked about the bad stuff destroying America and the church, and how to get ready, how to get serious with God, we could have listened.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; &#8220;If only&#8212;If Christians had spoken up against obvious evils, if only Christians had voted, things could have been different.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; &#8220;I regret, I wish, I should have listened to the warnings that I did hear.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; &#8220;I wish we&#8217;d all been ready.<br>There&#8217;s no time to change your mind;<br>The Son has come, and you&#8217;ve been left behind.&#8221;<br>[That is not giving any prediction of timing&#8212;just a call to get ready for hard times&#8212;a call to get ready for Jesus.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we look back on 2024, what will we think and say and feel ? &#8212; &#8220;Remember how good things were in 2023.&#8221; &#8212; &#8220;Our fear, apprehension of imminent danger, was right, justified, realized, in events of 2024.&#8221; &#8212; &#8220;I wish someone had told us how to get ready for the disasters, The Big One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith_based","category-political-cultural","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6172"}],"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=6172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6174,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6172\/revisions\/6174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}