{"id":7374,"date":"2016-01-27T16:54:55","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T21:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=7374"},"modified":"2016-01-27T16:54:55","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T21:54:55","slug":"his-kindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=7374","title":{"rendered":"His Kindness!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jared Wilson tells a wonderful story on how we don&#8217;t want to be put a period where <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.thegospelcoalition.org\/gospeldrivenchurch\/2016\/01\/27\/do-not-put-a-period-where-j-i-packer-puts-an-exclamation-point\/\">J.I. Packer puts an exclamation point<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also, if you missed the news earlier this month, Packer, that greatly anointed author, has lost his sight. He talks about it in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/j-i-packer-89-on-losing-sight-but-seeing-christ\">interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>No, in the days when it was physically possible for me to do these things I was concerned, even anxious, to get ahead with doing them. Now that it\u2019s no longer possible I acknowledge the sovereignty of God. \u201cThe Lord gives and the Lord takes away\u201d (Job 1:21). Now that I\u2019m nearly 90 years old he\u2019s taken away. And I won\u2019t get any stronger, physically, as I go on in this world. And I don\u2019t know how much longer I\u2019ll be going on anyway.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jared Wilson tells a wonderful story on how we don&#8217;t want to be put a period where J.I. Packer puts an exclamation point. Also, if you missed the news earlier this month, Packer, that greatly anointed author, has lost his sight. He talks about it in this interview. No, in the days when it was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=7374\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">His Kindness!<\/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":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,14],"tags":[1343,1398,1427],"class_list":["post-7374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-religion","tag-j-i-packer","tag-jared-wilson","tag-jesus-christ"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}