{"id":1937,"date":"2020-03-28T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=1937"},"modified":"2020-03-22T21:14:27","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T03:14:27","slug":"acting-according-to-the-time-were-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=1937","title":{"rendered":"Acting according to the time we&#8217;re in"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In contrast to one friend who wanted us to <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=1934\">violate our governor&#8217;s request<\/a> that we socially isolate, another friend wrote to say how his planned 70th birthday gathering had to be canceled. He accepted it with grace and added this quote from J.R.R. Toilken:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cI wish it need not have happened in my time,\u201d said Frodo.\u00a0 \u201cSo do I,\u201d said Gandalf, \u201cand so do all who live to see such times.\u00a0 But that is not for them to decide.\u00a0 All we decide is what to do with the time that is given us.\u201d &#8211;<\/em>J.R.R Tolkien, <strong>The Fellowship of the Ring<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>From Issachar, men who understood the times and knew what Israel  should do&#8230; (1 Chronicles 12.32, NIV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Solomon answered God, \u201cYou have shown great kindness to David my  father and have made me king in his place&#8230;Give me wisdom and knowledge, that I may lead  this people, for who is able to govern this great people of yours?\u201d (2 Chronicles 1.8, 10, NIV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God&#8211;and righteousness and sanctification and redemption. (1 Corinthians 1.30, NKJV)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In contrast to one friend who wanted us to violate our governor&#8217;s request that we socially isolate, another friend wrote to say how his planned 70th birthday gathering had to be canceled. He accepted it with grace and added this quote from J.R.R. Toilken: \u201cI wish it need not have happened in my time,\u201d said &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=1937\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Acting according to the time we&#8217;re in<\/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":{"_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-1937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-vf","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937","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=1937"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1939,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions\/1939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}