{"id":86,"date":"2009-11-27T10:38:59","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T13:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=86"},"modified":"2009-11-27T10:38:59","modified_gmt":"2009-11-27T13:38:59","slug":"our-deepest-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=86","title":{"rendered":"Our deepest need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;No\u00a0one cares for my soul.&#8221; (Ps. 142:4)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There is perhaps no greater expresssion of loneliness in the Bible.\u00a0 All of us have felt this way at one time or another.\u00a0\u00a0It speaks to our\u00a0deepest need as human beings.\u00a0 A spiritual kind of loneliness &#8211; even in a crowd of people, even among friends.<\/p>\n<p>Christ is the answer to loneliness.\u00a0\u00a0He was forsaken by his Father on the cross that we might be embraced.\u00a0 &#8220;Cast all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;No\u00a0one cares for my soul.&#8221; (Ps. 142:4) There is perhaps no greater expresssion of loneliness in the Bible.\u00a0 All of us have felt this way at one time or another.\u00a0\u00a0It speaks to our\u00a0deepest need as human beings.\u00a0 A spiritual kind of loneliness &#8211; even in a crowd of people, even among friends. Christ is the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=86\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Our deepest need&#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\/86"}],"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=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}