{"id":6158,"date":"2022-07-22T09:11:28","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T14:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=6158"},"modified":"2022-07-22T09:11:28","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T14:11:28","slug":"a-friendship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=6158","title":{"rendered":"A Friendship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A friendship takes a minimum of two; <br>A fellowship, perhaps, at least three. <br>So it is with the holy Trinity. <br>From eternity they knew each other <br>The three in love all together. <br>&#8216;Twas a long time before the world <br>And finally bringing man on the scene. <br>The eternal God of the universe lives <br>As He has from eternity past <br>In need of no creation, no man <br>Alone, the three, they can stand. <br>And when man was brought on the scene <br>What was his purpose to man did it seem? <br>Not fun and pleasure and selfish indulgence <br>But in His fellowship enriching intelligence: <br>Knowledge of holy and might Creator <br>The very One who would be the Savior. <br>And in service that One His glory to bring <br>To all the world His praises to sing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1007 on 22 July, 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friendship takes a minimum of two; A fellowship, perhaps, at least three. So it is with the holy Trinity. From eternity they knew each other The three in love all together. &#8216;Twas a long time before the world And finally bringing man on the scene. The eternal God of the universe lives As He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48,50,12,52],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6158"}],"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=6158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6159,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6158\/revisions\/6159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}