{"id":2003,"date":"2012-08-03T08:20:38","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T12:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2003"},"modified":"2012-08-07T08:06:39","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T12:06:39","slug":"isaiah-40-no-clever-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2003","title":{"rendered":"(Isaiah 40) No clever thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.\u00a0Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.\u00a0Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God?\u00a0Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.\u00a0He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>O God.\u00a0 <em>My<\/em> God.\u00a0 My <em>God<\/em>.\u00a0 There is none like you.\u00a0 Infinite.\u00a0 Sovereign.\u00a0 Holy.\u00a0 Compasssionate. Personal. I have no unique words to write down.\u00a0 No clever thoughts that have not already been thought a thousand times over.\u00a0 But I have my life, my unique life.\u00a0 In my offering it up to God, I bring Him something no one else can bring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.\u00a0Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2003\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(Isaiah 40) No clever thoughts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2003"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2005,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions\/2005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}