{"id":94,"date":"2009-12-12T10:15:34","date_gmt":"2009-12-12T13:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=94"},"modified":"2009-12-12T10:36:29","modified_gmt":"2009-12-12T13:36:29","slug":"faithful-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=94","title":{"rendered":"God&#8217;s middle name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;Into your hand I commit my spirit; you have redeemed me, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord<\/span>, faithful God.&#8221; (Ps. 31:5)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Bible reveals to us that\u00a0God<strong><em> is<\/em><\/strong> faithful.\u00a0\u00a0So much so, in fact,\u00a0we could almost say that Faithful is God&#8217;s middle name. \u00a0Forever faithful.\u00a0\u00a0This is truly something to rejoice over.\u00a0 He is, after all, God.\u00a0 The creator and sustainer of all things.\u00a0 The Almighty.\u00a0 &#8220;For the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord<\/span> of hosts has purposed, and who will annul it? His hand is stretched out, and who will turn it back?&#8221; (Is. 14:27)\u00a0 &#8220;Whatever the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord<\/span> pleases, he does, in heaven\u00a0and on earth.&#8221; (Ps. 135:6)<\/p>\n<p>And yet, he pleases to be faithful.\u00a0 Merciful.\u00a0 He pleases to save his people from their sins, and to give them a heart\u00a0to obey him.\u00a0 And eventually &#8211;\u00a0to be like him.\u00a0 &#8220;But we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.&#8221; (1 John 3:2)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Into your hand I commit my spirit; you have redeemed me, O Lord, faithful God.&#8221; (Ps. 31:5) The Bible reveals to us that\u00a0God is faithful.\u00a0\u00a0So much so, in fact,\u00a0we could almost say that Faithful is God&#8217;s middle name. \u00a0Forever faithful.\u00a0\u00a0This is truly something to rejoice over.\u00a0 He is, after all, God.\u00a0 The creator and sustainer &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=94\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;God&#8217;s middle name&#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\/94"}],"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=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}