{"id":2363,"date":"2012-11-13T10:16:30","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T14:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2363"},"modified":"2012-11-14T15:17:21","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T19:17:21","slug":"what-makes-him-tick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2363","title":{"rendered":"What makes Him tick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Thus says the Lord: &#8220;Again there shall be heard in this place&#8230;the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who will say: &#8216;Praise the Lord of hosts, for the Lord is good, for His mercy endures forever.'&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremiah 33:10-11<\/em><\/p>\n<p>God is a good God.\u00a0 It is not just that God does good things.\u00a0 He<em> is<\/em> good.\u00a0 Ontologically.\u00a0 Essentially.\u00a0 In the same way, the Apostle John wrote that\u00a0God is love.\u00a0 Not that He loves, but that He <em>is<\/em> love.\u00a0 Essentially.\u00a0 It is, we might say reverently, what makes Him tick.\u00a0 For God so <em>loved<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thus says the Lord: &#8220;Again there shall be heard in this place&#8230;the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who will say: &#8216;Praise the Lord of hosts, for the Lord is good, for His mercy endures forever.&#8217;&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremiah 33:10-11 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2363\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What makes Him tick&#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\/2363"}],"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=2363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2367,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions\/2367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}