{"id":7800,"date":"2023-08-10T08:44:11","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T13:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=7800"},"modified":"2023-08-10T08:44:11","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T13:44:11","slug":"like-a-hurricane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=7800","title":{"rendered":"Like a Hurricane"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Like a Hurricane Washing Over Me!  <br>Indeed, His grace is <em>sovereign<\/em>; <br>Left to ourselves, <em>no one<\/em> would choose Him! <br>Give, then, pure, unadulterated <em>thanks<\/em>! <br>No credit to you for a <em>decision<\/em>; <br>You are a product of His election <br>And you weren&#8217;t a choice selection. <br>(Who knows why He chose <em>you<\/em>?) <br>You are left in awe and pure gratitude,<br>Not to wallow in common pulchritude.<br>He chose you for some <em>reason unknown<\/em><br>And by His grace you have grown.<br>Yours is to be a lucrative product<br>Of His unwavering, amazing mercy,<br>Bringing forth, then, fruit for his pleasure.<br>It is His glory which is your treasure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A.m. on 10 Aug., 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like a Hurricane Washing Over Me! Indeed, His grace is sovereign; Left to ourselves, no one would choose Him! Give, then, pure, unadulterated thanks! No credit to you for a decision; You are a product of His election And you weren&#8217;t a choice selection. (Who knows why He chose you?) You are left in awe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,50,12,57,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-actors-in-the-kingdom-selections","category-apologetics","category-character-or-not","category-citizenship","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7801,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7800\/revisions\/7801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}