{"id":5164,"date":"2022-10-15T05:31:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T11:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=5164"},"modified":"2022-10-05T11:32:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T17:32:10","slug":"times-are-tough-what-do-we-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=5164","title":{"rendered":"Times are tough: what do we do?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We closed yesterday&#8217;s blog on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=5155\" target=\"_blank\">Scary Times<\/a> with the question: what shall we do? Actually, Paul tells Timothy exactly what to do. Maybe we should listen in:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>preach the word; <\/li><li>be ready in season and out of season; <\/li><li>reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching&#8230;  <\/li><li>always be sober-minded, <\/li><li>endure suffering, <\/li><li>do the work of an evangelist, <\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fulfill your ministry<\/a>. (2 Timothy 4.1, 2, 5, ESV, bulleted for clarity)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I strongly believe that the last command applies to us all, even if some of the earlier commands more directly apply to Timothy as a pastor. Please click the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2406\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>. All we can do, even when the culture appears to be going to hell in a handbasket, is the work God has given us to do right where we are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. (Ephesians 2.10, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We closed yesterday&#8217;s blog on Scary Times with the question: what shall we do? Actually, Paul tells Timothy exactly what to do. Maybe we should listen in: I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=5164\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Times are tough: what do we do?<\/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-5164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-1li","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5164","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=5164"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5169,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5164\/revisions\/5169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}