{"id":2320,"date":"2012-11-01T19:46:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T23:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2320"},"modified":"2012-11-02T20:40:09","modified_gmt":"2012-11-03T00:40:09","slug":"how-much-nearer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2320","title":{"rendered":"How much nearer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Am I a God near at hand, says the Lord, and not a God afar off? Can anyone hide himself in secret places, so I shall not see him? says the Lord; Do I not fill heaven and earth? says the Lord.\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremiah 23:23-24<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Things are not what they seem.\u00a0 We live and move and have our being in God, and in His kingdom.\u00a0 Indeed, His Kingdom is upon us.\u00a0 There is a mystical reality to life that is more real than the things I can see with my eyes or hold in my hands.\u00a0 This is not just a fantasy. It is not a fantasy precisely because some day in God&#8217;s future I will see with my eyes; the faith will be sight, the clouds will be rolled back as a scroll, as the beloved hymn says.\u00a0 If God is near to us now, how much nearer will He be then?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Am I a God near at hand, says the Lord, and not a God afar off? Can anyone hide himself in secret places, so I shall not see him? says the Lord; Do I not fill heaven and earth? says the Lord.\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremiah 23:23-24 Things are not what they seem.\u00a0 We live and move and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2320\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How much nearer?&#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\/2320"}],"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=2320"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2322,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320\/revisions\/2322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}