{"id":4182,"date":"2016-01-25T07:48:08","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T11:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=4182"},"modified":"2016-01-25T07:48:08","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T11:48:08","slug":"the-lord-is-the-telos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=4182","title":{"rendered":"The LORD is the telos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>I have seen the consummation of all perfection,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>But Your commandment is exceedingly broad. Ps. 119:96<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Your commandments, O Lord, are very comprehensive. You are Lord of <em>all<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>Life is full of different pursuits, different specialties, different interests. But no one of them is an end in itself.&nbsp; A man may be a classical pianist who, through years of study and practice, is able to play even the most complicated pieces perfectly. And yet the piano is not the telos of his existence.<\/p>\n<p>The LORD is the telos. &#8220;For from Him, and through Him, and to Him are all things, to Whom be the glory forever.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have seen the consummation of all perfection, But Your commandment is exceedingly broad. Ps. 119:96 Your commandments, O Lord, are very comprehensive. You are Lord of all. Life is full of different pursuits, different specialties, different interests. But no one of them is an end in itself.&nbsp; A man may be a classical pianist &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=4182\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The LORD is the telos&#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\/4182"}],"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=4182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4183,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4182\/revisions\/4183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}