{"id":34048,"date":"2015-10-03T12:45:45","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T17:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=34048"},"modified":"2015-10-03T12:45:45","modified_gmt":"2015-10-03T17:45:45","slug":"saul-callings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2015\/10\/saul-callings\/","title":{"rendered":"Saul Callings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday Morning\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/31118_000_028_07.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34051 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/31118_000_028_07-300x271.jpg\" alt=\"31118_000_028_07\" width=\"300\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/31118_000_028_07-300x271.jpg 300w, https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/31118_000_028_07.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>conference referenced how Samuel was unsure that Saul was the right man to lead Israel. With the benefits of hindsight, one indeed wonders about the choice. Saul, in the end, had some serious problems as King. Does God call people knowing that they will, to a significant degree, fail? Yes, I think he does. I think he does it all the time.<\/p>\n<p>Yet sometimes I think people see someone called to a calling and, if it does not work out well, they question if the calling was inspired. Now, I don&#8217;t think that all callings are perfect. But nor do I think that just because things don&#8217;t work out storybook perfect does it mean the calling was not inspired.<\/p>\n<p>And to layer it on, I think a calling can be inspired even if God knows the person will not accept it. I even think a calling can be inspired even if the person shouldn&#8217;t accept it. A calling, even one not accepted, can do something for a person or get them thinking about something God wants them to think about. He is playing the long game, after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday Morning\u00a0conference referenced how Samuel was unsure that Saul was the right man to lead Israel. With the benefits of hindsight, one indeed wonders about the choice. Saul, in the end, had some serious problems as King. Does God call people knowing that they will, to a significant degree, fail? Yes, I think he does. I think he does it all the time. Yet sometimes I think people see someone called to a calling and, if it does not work out well, they question if the calling was inspired. Now, I don&#8217;t think that all callings are perfect. But nor do I think that just because things don&#8217;t work out storybook perfect does it mean the calling was not inspired. And to layer it on, I think a calling can be inspired even if God knows the person will not accept it. I even think a calling can be inspired even if the person shouldn&#8217;t accept it. A calling, even one not accepted, can do something for a person or get them thinking about something God wants them to think about. He is playing the long game, after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":34051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/31118_000_028_07.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34048"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34052,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34048\/revisions\/34052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}