{"id":5889,"date":"2026-10-02T17:07:57","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T17:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=5889"},"modified":"2026-10-02T17:07:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T17:07:57","slug":"god-is-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=5889","title":{"rendered":"God is Love"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em><strong>How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?  Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em><strong>Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.  Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.  <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em><strong>Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.  For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em><strong>But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.  Proverbs 1:22-33<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Perhaps the cultural view of the love of God should be relooked in the light of Scripture.<\/strong>  <strong>When one loves, of course there is something  hated.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">.<em>..let the word of Christ dwell <\/em>(take up its life) <em>in you richly&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you. Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=5889\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">God is Love<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5889"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5901,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5889\/revisions\/5901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}