{"id":2358,"date":"2012-11-11T18:49:45","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T22:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2358"},"modified":"2012-11-12T19:55:56","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T23:55:56","slug":"beyond-all-measure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2358","title":{"rendered":"Beyond all measure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Thus says the Lord: \u201cIf heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Jeremiah 31:37<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But, of course, heaven cannot be measured.\u00a0 The Lord&#8217;s mercy, His <em>hesed<\/em>, is beyond all measure.\u00a0 The more we realize how wonderful the Lord truly is,\u00a0the more acute is our awareness of our own sinfulness.\u00a0 As the hymnwriter said, &#8220;My sinful self my only shame.\u00a0 My glory all the cross!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thus says the Lord: \u201cIf heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Jeremiah 31:37 But, of course, heaven cannot be measured.\u00a0 The Lord&#8217;s mercy, His hesed, is beyond all measure.\u00a0 The more we &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2358\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Beyond all measure&#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\/2358"}],"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=2358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2359,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358\/revisions\/2359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}