{"id":4344,"date":"2021-03-09T07:42:55","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T12:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=4344"},"modified":"2021-03-09T07:42:55","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T12:42:55","slug":"the-hope-of-the-resurrection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=4344","title":{"rendered":"The Hope of the Resurrection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The hope of the resurrection is not a &#8220;I hope He picks me&#8221; kind of a hope or a &#8220;I hope He picks my kids&#8221; kind of hope.\u00a0 No.\u00a0 It is a hope of <em>confident<\/em> anticipation.\u00a0 It is a waiting hope like the people in a church with the groom facing them as they wait for the bride to walk down the isle.\u00a0 They know she is coming!\u00a0 And they are enjoying a hope of her walk before their eyes in all her beauty and joy.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are His bride and He looks upon as a beautiful treasure that He has won and has rights to wed.&nbsp; And as His bride we come down this isle of life in the world,&nbsp; having prepared ourselves, performing out duties.&nbsp; And the world looks on.&nbsp; People are watching.&nbsp; They are amazed at our grace and charm and they commit their respect to us.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The angels look on as we walk down the isle of history.&nbsp; The church is a beautiful bride and the angels are in awe and they respect her.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9 March, 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hope of the resurrection is not a &#8220;I hope He picks me&#8221; kind of a hope or a &#8220;I hope He picks my kids&#8221; kind of hope.\u00a0 No.\u00a0 It is a hope of confident anticipation.\u00a0 It is a waiting hope like the people in a church with the groom facing them as they wait [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,23,53],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4344"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4345,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4344\/revisions\/4345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}