{"id":1429,"date":"2019-11-02T17:28:08","date_gmt":"2019-11-02T23:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=1429"},"modified":"2019-11-02T11:30:39","modified_gmt":"2019-11-02T17:30:39","slug":"about-exile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=1429","title":{"rendered":"About Exile"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’m finding the exile<\/a> metaphor I wrote about yesterday helpful. Not everything about life is what we would want, and we should expect that. Years ago, a single Air Force officer friend of mine talked about living with unbelievers in the barracks. “Of course they don’t live the way I would be comfortable with! Why would I expect otherwise? They’re unbelievers.” A good perspective. If I were exiled to England, for example, it would do me little good to complain that “They talk funny and drive on the wrong side of the road!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before David became king, when he was in exile, he was still seeking to live in God\u2019s presence. And this is precisely what God promised the exiles in Jeremiah 29: “I’ll show up and take care of you…when you call on me,…I’ll listen…when you come looking for me, you’ll find me…”<\/em> David wrote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s the one thing I crave from God, the one thing I seek above all else: I want the privilege of living with him every moment in his house, finding the sweet loveliness of his face, filled with awe, delighting in his glory and grace. I want to live my life so close to him that he takes pleasure in my every prayer. (Psalm 27.4, Passion Translation)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m finding the exile metaphor I wrote about yesterday helpful. Not everything about life is what we would want, and we should expect that. Years ago, a single Air Force officer friend of mine talked about living with unbelievers in the barracks. “Of course they don’t live the way I would be comfortable with! Why … Continue reading About Exile<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-n3","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1430,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions\/1430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}