{"id":7440,"date":"2023-03-24T10:15:57","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T15:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=7440"},"modified":"2023-03-24T10:31:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T15:31:18","slug":"god-eternally-existing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=7440","title":{"rendered":"God, Eternally Existing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>God, eternally existing <br>In need of NO company! <br>Tough to imagine such a thing,  <br>When we see people come and go: <br>Old friends, new friends, <br>All things changing. <br>But One does remain the same!<br>Got that family and an old house <br>Familiar places and people around, <br>And yet there comes an end to all <br>And we wonder what happens next. <br>Yet, we\u2019ve been given the story <br>By the prophets and God Himself. <br>Jesus came down and walked among us <br>And confirmed the words of the prophets: <br>One God, content to live forever, abiding.<br>The Three in One, made some angels <br>And then humans beings in His image. <br>But He had some plan to manifest His love, <br>A way that is hard to understand. <br>He loved his creatures and endowed them<br>With souls and minds and <em>freedom of choice<\/em> <br>To follow the world or listen to His voice. <br>And then after allowing those creatures to fall <br>He became one of them; He died for us all!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1106 on 23 March, 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God, eternally existing In need of NO company! Tough to imagine such a thing, When we see people come and go: Old friends, new friends, All things changing. But One does remain the same!Got that family and an old house Familiar places and people around, And yet there comes an end to all And we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50,52,53],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7440"}],"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=7440"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7444,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7440\/revisions\/7444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}