{"id":3086,"date":"2013-08-27T06:53:22","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T10:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=3086"},"modified":"2013-08-27T08:08:50","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T12:08:50","slug":"counted-worthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=3086","title":{"rendered":"Counted worthy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Luke 20:35-36<\/em><br \/>\n<em>But those who are counted worthy to attain that age, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage;\u00a0 nor can they die anymore, for they are equal to the angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>How can I hope to be counted <em>worthy<\/em> on that great day?\u00a0 I am no better than the prodigal son who, falling down before his Father exclaimed, &#8220;I am not worthy to be called your son!&#8221;.\u00a0 &#8220;Oh, my son!\u00a0 My son!&#8221;, cried the Father as he threw his arms around him and called for a big party to celebrate.\u00a0 Apparently the Father thought his son was worthy.\u00a0 But in what way?<\/p>\n<p>Certainly the son&#8217;s actions were not worthy; he had wasted his Father&#8217;s wealth on a profligate lifestyle.\u00a0 But his humility, his contrition made him <em>worthy<\/em> to be called his Father&#8217;s son.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luke 20:35-36 But those who are counted worthy to attain that age, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage;\u00a0 nor can they die anymore, for they are equal to the angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection. How can I hope to be counted worthy &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=3086\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Counted worthy&#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\/3086"}],"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=3086"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3088,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086\/revisions\/3088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}