{"id":3210,"date":"2020-04-06T05:17:52","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T05:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/?p=3210"},"modified":"2020-04-06T23:00:51","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T23:00:51","slug":"lock-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/?p=3210","title":{"rendered":"Lock Down!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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   At first it didn\u2019t seem real! Lock down? Impossible!\nBut as the days wore on, it became apparent that perhaps it was the only way to\nhalt the spread of the deadly virus that was sweeping the world. Looking back,\nwe wonder if it would have worked more efficiently if it had come into force a\nfew weeks earlier! But it is, what it is, and now we have been shut down\ncompletely, and at what a cost to the whole country remains to be seen. We\u2019ve\nheard it said that life as we have known it, will never return. Time alone will\ntell that story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

   There are some pluses. For instance, we see\nwhole families out walking together up and down our road. Then again, we see\nneighbours who we\u2019ve never met before as they go past our garden fence. Life on\nthe whole has slowed down. There are no dead lines to meet; no meetings to\nattend; nothing that simply HAS to be done! There is time to get the garden\nback into order, and time to catch up on all those jobs that get pushed into\nthe background waiting until \u201cthere is time\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

   The disadvantages are mostly in our minds.\nThe children cry that they are \u201cbored\u201d! What is that, but simply a matter of\nattitude? We had a snippet come through the email box the other day that\nreminded us that the virus can\u2019t take away our enjoyment of a brilliant\nsunrise;  it can\u2019t take away a smile; it\ncan\u2019t stop an encouraging word, nor can it stop a phone call or email!   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    If we know the Lord, we realise that this thing is all part of God\u2019s wider plan\u2026.the only trouble is that we can\u2019t see the big picture yet! So let\u2019s take heart and look upward, waiting for Him to work everything out, knowing that it will be for the best, even if we don\u2019t particularly like the outcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                  At first it didn\u2019t seem real! Lock down? Impossible! But as the days wore on, it became apparent that perhaps it was the only way to halt the spread of the deadly virus that was sweeping the world. Looking back, we wonder if it would have worked more efficiently if it had come … Continue reading Lock Down!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[508],"tags":[601,603,602],"class_list":["post-3210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-lessons","tag-slow-down","tag-trusting-god","tag-wider-picture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p69z0J-PM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3210"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3212,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210\/revisions\/3212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}