{"id":431,"date":"2015-08-03T15:45:46","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T13:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anakainosis.com\/blog\/?p=431"},"modified":"2015-08-03T15:45:46","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T13:45:46","slug":"such-a-gentleman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anakainosis.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/such-a-gentleman\/","title":{"rendered":"Such a gentleman!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus is so none intrusive that it seems he would be ready to allow people to remain ill and burdened down by their troubles.<!--more--> In John 5:6 Jesus knew the man had been laying at the side of the Pool of Bethesda 38 years and yet Jesus asks him &#8220;do you want to be healed!&#8221; He was giving the man the choice to stay crippled on a mat by the pool or receive healing, it was quite a self evident question to be asking. The man could have said no not today and I think Jesus would have carried on.<\/p>\n<p>Through the written word Jesus continues to come to us today asking the very same question, allowing us to receive his healing touch if we wish to. He won&#8217;t ever force himself on us. He said: &#8220;if a man is thirsty, let him come to me and drink&#8221; John 7:37. And &#8220;I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life&#8221; John 8:12. He was clear about who he was and what he could do, leaving the freed of choice for all to come to him.<\/p>\n<p>We are free to believe, receive and follow, Jesus the Gentleman leaves the choice to us.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus is so none intrusive that it seems he would be ready to allow people to remain ill and burdened down by their troubles.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thinking-about-the-word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakainosis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakainosis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakainosis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakainosis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakainosis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/anakainosis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433,"href":"https:\/\/anakainosis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions\/433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakainosis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakainosis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakainosis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}