{"id":774,"date":"2012-04-21T18:51:10","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T22:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etheriedge.wordpress.com\/?p=774"},"modified":"2020-10-05T10:24:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T14:24:26","slug":"he-loves-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/21\/he-loves-me\/","title":{"rendered":"He Loves Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My heart is overwhelmed, but in a good way.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s full of the <em>Goodness of God<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Who is this God Who listens to me and hears my prayers?<\/p>\n<p>Who is this God Who loves those I love and cares for those I care about, far more than I do?<\/p>\n<p>Who is this God so full of compassion and mercy that He protects and rescues me from my own foolishness?<\/p>\n<p>Who is this amazing God, so full of GRACE?<\/p>\n<p>I can hardly believe He chose to know me.<\/p>\n<p>He called and waited until I came in all my limited ability to understand Him.<\/p>\n<p>He puts up with my short-sighted, weak-minded faith, ever committed to the challenge of making it grow.<\/p>\n<p><em>Unrelenting&#8230; Ever-present&#8230; Everlasting&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is my God Who&#8217;s beyond description!<\/p>\n<p>And yet, He&#8217;s calling me still, to know Him more.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, how I love Him, because He first loved me! -anna<\/p>\n<p><strong>ForGlorySake!<\/strong> <em>&#8211; Anna 4\/2012<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forglorysake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_2687.jpeg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6407\"\/><figcaption><strong><em>We love Him, because He first loved us.<\/em><\/strong> 1John 4:19<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My heart is overwhelmed, but in a good way. It&#8217;s full of the Goodness of God. Who is this God Who listens to me and hears my prayers? Who is this God Who loves those I love and cares for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/21\/he-loves-me\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[1264,1263,1262],"class_list":["post-774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-he-grows","tag-he-waits","tag-who-is-god-he-calls"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paUt4s-cu","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6408,"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions\/6408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}