{"id":95,"date":"2009-12-15T10:10:36","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T13:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=95"},"modified":"2009-12-16T00:00:12","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T03:00:12","slug":"king-of-all-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=95","title":{"rendered":"King of all the earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;For God is the King of all the earth. &#8230; God reigns over the nations; God sits on his holy throne.&#8221;\u00a0 (Ps. 47:7,8)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It is, sadly, all too easy to live our lives unaffected by this grand reality.\u00a0\u00a0God\u00a0reigns as\u00a0King of all the earth.\u00a0 It seems at times ethereal to us.\u00a0 Even irrelevant.\u00a0 After all, don&#8217;t people and nations seem to do as they please?<\/p>\n<p>We are too focused on\u00a0our small little worlds to see the big picture clearly.\u00a0 This is why the Bible often refers to the brevity of\u00a0life and\u00a0the certainty of death and of judgement.\u00a0\u00a0Scripture takes us, at it were, to the top of the mountain, where we can look down from God&#8217;s vantage point.\u00a0 Where the big picture comes sharply into focus.\u00a0 Where we realize that God is\u00a0indeed King of all the earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;For God is the King of all the earth. &#8230; God reigns over the nations; God sits on his holy throne.&#8221;\u00a0 (Ps. 47:7,8) It is, sadly, all too easy to live our lives unaffected by this grand reality.\u00a0\u00a0God\u00a0reigns as\u00a0King of all the earth.\u00a0 It seems at times ethereal to us.\u00a0 Even irrelevant.\u00a0 After all, don&#8217;t &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=95\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;King of all the earth&#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\/95"}],"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=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}