{"id":8828,"date":"2013-04-27T12:36:35","date_gmt":"2013-04-27T12:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/27\/a-callable-loan\/"},"modified":"2013-04-27T12:36:35","modified_gmt":"2013-04-27T12:36:35","slug":"a-callable-loan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/27\/a-callable-loan\/","title":{"rendered":"A Callable Loan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">We who thrive get used to being alive, and forget we have our lives on loan, a loan that can be called&#0160; on the spot without advance notice.&#0160; Compare <em>James<\/em> 4:13-17 (NIV):<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><sup>13 <\/sup>Now listen, you who say, \u201cToday or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.\u201d <sup>14 <\/sup>Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. <sup>15 <\/sup>Instead, you ought to say, \u201cIf it is the Lord\u2019s will, we will live and do this or that.\u201d <sup>16 <\/sup>As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil. <sup>17 <\/sup>If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn\u2019t do it, it is sin for them.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We who thrive get used to being alive, and forget we have our lives on loan, a loan that can be called&#0160; on the spot without advance notice.&#0160; Compare James 4:13-17 (NIV): 13 Now listen, you who say, \u201cToday or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/27\/a-callable-loan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Callable Loan&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,39,166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-human-predicament","category-new-testament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}