{"id":93,"date":"2009-12-07T10:37:51","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T13:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=93"},"modified":"2009-12-07T10:37:51","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T13:37:51","slug":"the-friendship-of-the-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=93","title":{"rendered":"The friendship of the LORD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;The friendship of the LORD is for those who fear him, and he makes known to them his covenant.&#8221; (Ps. 25:14)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To be a friend of God, the creator and sustainer of all things\u00a0&#8211; what greater aspiration could there be?<\/p>\n<p>Friendship.\u00a0 It is somewhat astounding that the scripture would use the word to describe a relationship with the Almighty.\u00a0 But it is not a slap on the back, &#8220;You doin&#8217; alright?&#8221; kind of friendship.\u00a0 Rather, it\u00a0is a deep, abiding relationship reserved for those who\u00a0reverence the LORD, esteem his holiness and obey his commands.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The friendship of the LORD is for those who fear him, and he makes known to them his covenant.&#8221; (Ps. 25:14) To be a friend of God, the creator and sustainer of all things\u00a0&#8211; what greater aspiration could there be? Friendship.\u00a0 It is somewhat astounding that the scripture would use the word to describe a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=93\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The friendship of the LORD&#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\/93"}],"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=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}