{"id":4347,"date":"2023-08-09T14:16:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T14:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davesali.wordpress.com\/?p=4347"},"modified":"2023-08-09T14:16:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T14:16:00","slug":"double-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/09\/double-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"Double trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.<\/p>\n<cite>Genesis 39:12<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Double trouble. That&#8217;s what &#8220;Egypt&#8221; means, and that&#8217;s the conundrum presented to Joseph by Potiphar&#8217;s wife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the moment she grabs him by the garment, Joseph has a critical choice to make. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joseph has to choose between pleasing people or pleasing God. And Joseph makes the remarkable choice to appear guilty before men &#8211; leaving his garment in Mrs Potiphar&#8217;s hands &#8211; <em>in order to<\/em> remain blameless before God. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This choice to fear God rather than men causes him to be thrown in prison, falsely branded a sex offender, with all his dreams of greatness seemingly destroyed forever&#8230;until the moment God exhonerates him and makes him the most powerful man on earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler&#8230; (Psalm 91:3)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out. Genesis 39:12 Double trouble. That&#8217;s what &#8220;Egypt&#8221; means, and that&#8217;s the conundrum presented to Joseph by Potiphar&#8217;s wife. In the moment she grabs him by the garment, Joseph has a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/09\/double-trouble\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Double trouble&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}