{"id":3435,"date":"2014-05-21T08:32:22","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T12:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=3435"},"modified":"2014-05-21T08:32:22","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T12:32:22","slug":"we-who-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=3435","title":{"rendered":"We who believe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>1 Thessalonians 3:8-10<\/em><br \/>\n<em>For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord. \u00a0For what thanks can we render to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sake before our God, night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face and perfect what is lacking in your faith?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Charles Gabriel, who wrote quite a few hymns in the late 19th &#8211; early 20th century, wrote of Christ that &#8220;He had no tears for his own grief, but sweat drops of blood for mine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This same intense, self-sacrificial love and concern for others is just what comes through in Paul&#8217;s words to the believers in Thessalonica. \u00a0This, of course, was the Spirit of Christ in Paul.<\/p>\n<p>We who believe have been given the same Spirit. \u00a0Lord, have mercy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 Thessalonians 3:8-10 For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord. \u00a0For what thanks can we render to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sake before our God, night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face and perfect what is lacking in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=3435\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We who believe&#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\/3435"}],"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=3435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3436,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435\/revisions\/3436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}