{"id":2460,"date":"2010-10-19T07:18:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T11:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=2460"},"modified":"2010-10-19T07:18:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T11:18:00","slug":"malachi-11-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=2460","title":{"rendered":"Malachi 1:1-5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/origami-money03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2458\" title=\"origami-money03\" src=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/origami-money03-300x280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/origami-money03-300x280.jpg 300w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/origami-money03.jpg 347w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Reading: Malachi 1:1-5 (English Standard Version)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1 The oracle of the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi. \u00a02 &#8220;I have loved you,&#8221; says the Lord. \u00a0But you say, &#8220;How have you loved us?&#8221; \u00a0&#8220;Is not Esau Jacob&#8217;s brother?&#8221; declares the Lord. \u00a0&#8220;Yet I have loved Jacob 3 but Esau I have hated. \u00a0I have laid waste his hill country and left his heritage to jackals of the desert.&#8221; 4 If Edom says, &#8220;We are shattered but we will rebuild the ruins,&#8221; the Lord of hosts says, &#8220;They may build, but I will tear down, and they will be called &#8216;the wicked country,&#8217; and &#8216;the people with whom the Lord is angry forever.'&#8221; \u00a05 Your own eyes shall see this, and you shall say &#8220;Great is the Lord beyond the border of Israel!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Takeaways:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>God is faithful.<\/li>\n<li>Our lives demonstrate God&#8217;s faithfulness in all situations at all times.<\/li>\n<li>This passage very specifically demonstrates God&#8217;s love for Israel.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m glad to know that God was patient with the hard-headed Israelites. \u00a0That helps me understand why He is so patient with me!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Reading: Malachi 1:1-5 (English Standard Version) 1 The oracle of the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi. \u00a02 &#8220;I have loved you,&#8221; says the Lord. \u00a0But you say, &#8220;How have you loved us?&#8221; \u00a0&#8220;Is not Esau Jacob&#8217;s brother?&#8221; declares the Lord. \u00a0&#8220;Yet I have loved Jacob 3 but Esau I have hated. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-study","category-leadership"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}