{"id":381,"date":"2015-12-17T19:25:09","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T19:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jackofalltribes.com\/?p=381"},"modified":"2015-12-17T19:25:09","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T19:25:09","slug":"so-what-is-god-doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/so-what-is-god-doing\/","title":{"rendered":"So what is God doing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To read this blog click here:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Good-News-2.5-Caring.pdf\">Good News 2.5 Caring<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/About-this-series-of-reflections1.pdf\">About this series of reflections<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/goc_pirton_016_nativity_crucifixion_noli_me_tangere_st_peters_church_holwell.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-382\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/goc_pirton_016_nativity_crucifixion_noli_me_tangere_st_peters_church_holwell-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"GOC Pirton 016: Nativity; Crucifixion; Noli me Tangere, St Peter's Church, Holwell\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/goc_pirton_016_nativity_crucifixion_noli_me_tangere_st_peters_church_holwell-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/goc_pirton_016_nativity_crucifixion_noli_me_tangere_st_peters_church_holwell.jpg 738w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>. . . in his months of silence, Zechariah noticed what God had been saying all along. God works in power to deliver his people out of fear and shame, out of sin and hate.\u00a0 God works in grace to deliver his people into justice and honor, into love and peace.\u00a0 And to do that, he works in the lives of an aging couple, and in the birth of their child.\u00a0 Precisely because the purpose is so all-important, the bigness of the purpose will not overlook the smallness and need of the people involved. . .<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"pdrp_endAttribution\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tphoto by: \n\t\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/58414938@N00\/17045903429\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"pdrp_link pdrp_attributionLink\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To read this blog click here:\u00a0 Good News 2.5 Caring About this series of reflections . . . in his months of silence, Zechariah noticed what God had been saying all along. God works in power to deliver his people out of fear and shame, out of sin and hate.\u00a0 God works in grace to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[77,55,120,96,119,121,106,29],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-reflections","tag-death","tag-grace","tag-john","tag-light","tag-prophet","tag-redemption","tag-remember","tag-salvation","books-of-the-bible-luke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":384,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions\/384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}