{"id":1745,"date":"2011-12-14T10:31:59","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T14:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=1745"},"modified":"2011-12-14T10:31:59","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T14:31:59","slug":"god-isnt-fooled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=1745","title":{"rendered":"God Isn&#8217;t Fooled"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cAh, you who hide deep from the Lord your counsel,<br \/>\nwhose deeds are in the dark,<br \/>\nand who say, &#8220;Who sees us? Who knows us?&#8221;<br \/>\nYou turn things upside down!<br \/>\nShall the potter be regarded as the clay,<br \/>\nthat the thing made should say of its maker,<br \/>\n&#8220;He did not make me&#8221;;<br \/>\nor the thing formed say of him who formed it,<br \/>\n&#8220;He has no understanding&#8221;?\u201d \u2013 Isaiah 29:15-16 (ESV)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>As the Prophet Isaiah warned against in this passage, while we may be able to conceal our true intentions and desires from others around us, God isn\u2019t fooled.\u00a0 Our hearts and minds are well known to the One who formed us, and when we seek to hide ourselves from His view, in fact we only deceive ourselves.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAh, you who hide deep from the Lord your counsel, whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, &#8220;Who sees us? Who knows us?&#8221; You turn things upside down! Shall the potter be regarded as the clay, that the thing made should say of its maker, &#8220;He did not make me&#8221;; or the thing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2088],"tags":[1454,3194,2316,966,2315,2313,2314],"class_list":["post-1745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-inspirations","tag-book-of-isaiah","tag-daily-inspirations","tag-deceive-ourselves","tag-god","tag-god-isnt-fooled","tag-prophet-isaiah","tag-true-intentions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-s9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1745"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1748,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions\/1748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}