{"id":2855,"date":"2020-12-23T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2855"},"modified":"2020-12-21T20:39:04","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T03:39:04","slug":"responses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2855","title":{"rendered":"Responses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As we approach Christmas Day (although I don&#8217;t think the Christmas blogs will end then), it&#8217;s instructive to think about all the responses that fit into God&#8217;s plan for Jesus&#8217; birth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Zechariah: \u201cAre you kidding me?\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Luke+1&amp;version=TPT\">Luke 1.18<\/a>) \u201cHis name is John!\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Luke+1&amp;version=TPT\">Luke 1.63<\/a>)<\/li><li>Mary: \u201cLet\u2019s do this.\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Luke+1&amp;version=TPT\">Luke 1.38<\/a>)<\/li><li>Shepherds: \u201cLet\u2019s go see!\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Luke+2&amp;version=TPT\">Luke 2.15<\/a>)<\/li><li>Simeon: \u201cI need to get to the temple!\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Luke+2&amp;version=TPT\">Luke 2.27<\/a>)<\/li><li>Joseph:<ul><li>\u201cMary, will you marry me&#8230;anyway?\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Matthew+1&amp;version=TPT\">Matthew 1.20 &#8211; 25<\/a>)<\/li><li>\u201cWe\u2019ve got to leave for Egypt NOW!\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Matthew+2&amp;version=TPT\">Matthew 2.13 &#8211; 15<\/a>)<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Wise men: \u201cWe have a Jewish king to find.\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Matthew+2&amp;version=TPT\">Matthew 2.1, 2<\/a>)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A book about Joseph, son of Jacob (Genesis 37 &#8211; 50), that I read a very long time ago, contained a sentence about responses that stuck with me: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>You always have a choice. It always makes a difference.<\/em> &#8211; Source forgotten, probably either Jerry White or David McCasland<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Then Mary said, &#8220;Behold the maidservant of the Lord! Let it be to me according to your word.&#8221; (Luke 1.38, NKJV)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we approach Christmas Day (although I don&#8217;t think the Christmas blogs will end then), it&#8217;s instructive to think about all the responses that fit into God&#8217;s plan for Jesus&#8217; birth. Zechariah: \u201cAre you kidding me?\u201d (Luke 1.18) \u201cHis name is John!\u201d (Luke 1.63) Mary: \u201cLet\u2019s do this.\u201d (Luke 1.38) Shepherds: \u201cLet\u2019s go see!\u201d (Luke &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2855\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Responses<\/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-2855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-K3","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2855","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=2855"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2859,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2855\/revisions\/2859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}