{"id":2603,"date":"2013-01-19T07:35:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-19T11:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2603"},"modified":"2013-01-22T09:24:06","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T13:24:06","slug":"a-carving-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2603","title":{"rendered":"Carved out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>You are My flock, the flock of My pasture; you are men, and I am your God.\u00a0\u00a0 Ezekiel 37:31<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It almost seems too simple&#8212;too uncomplex a statement for the ineffable God of the universe to make.\u00a0 What great condescension is here expressed!<\/p>\n<p>God is sovereign over all things, even His own sovereignty.\u00a0 When the Father decided to create, when the Logos uttered the words, &#8220;Let there be light&#8221;, when the Spirit hovered over the void, the Godhead &#8220;carved out&#8221;\u00a0a place, a possibility\u00a0for the creation to exist.\u00a0 This is why the Apostle Paul said that &#8220;we live, and move, and have our being&#8221; in God, the Creator and Sustainer of all things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are My flock, the flock of My pasture; you are men, and I am your God.\u00a0\u00a0 Ezekiel 37:31 It almost seems too simple&#8212;too uncomplex a statement for the ineffable God of the universe to make.\u00a0 What great condescension is here expressed! God is sovereign over all things, even His own sovereignty.\u00a0 When the Father &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2603\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Carved out&#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\/2603"}],"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=2603"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2605,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603\/revisions\/2605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}