{"id":19,"date":"2013-09-18T04:43:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T04:43:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2018-09-09T02:35:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T02:35:00","slug":"when-it-rains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.melton.space\/pharisee\/index.php\/2013\/09\/18\/when-it-rains\/","title":{"rendered":"When it Rains&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"scripture\"><p>If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=1%20John%203:17&amp;version=NIV\">1 John 3:17<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"blog\">Sunday morning our class was praying for the flood victims. And I was convicted that it\u2019s one thing to pray that God would comfort those who suffered loss in the floods, any yet another to \u201cput feet to it\u201d and do something concrete to help.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">It\u2019s not a good time. I have 2 in college (again!), and just completed a remodel that drained the free cash. But we are warm, dry, and well fed. I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s not a good time for those suffering from the rains, either. How can I sit in luxury and not have compassion on those who have lost so much?<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">If you would like to join me in helping the hurting, consider <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imsalvationarmy.org\/\">The Salvation Army<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/lbcc.org\/blog\/category\/flood\/\">LifeBridge Church<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redcross.org\/charitable-donations\">The Red Cross<\/a>. Or, if you know someone affected by the rains\/floods, be bold and give directly to them. As James said,<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"scripture\"><p>Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them, \u201cGo in peace; keep warm and well fed,\u201d but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=James%202:16-17&amp;version=NIV\">James 2:16-17<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person? 1 John 3:17 Sunday morning our class was praying for the flood victims. And I was convicted that it\u2019s one thing to pray that God would &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.melton.space\/pharisee\/index.php\/2013\/09\/18\/when-it-rains\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;When it Rains&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.melton.space\/pharisee\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.melton.space\/pharisee\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.melton.space\/pharisee\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.melton.space\/pharisee\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.melton.space\/pharisee\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.melton.space\/pharisee\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.melton.space\/pharisee\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.melton.space\/pharisee\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.melton.space\/pharisee\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.melton.space\/pharisee\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}