{"id":1006,"date":"2014-04-21T06:10:08","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T06:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/?p=1006"},"modified":"2014-04-26T14:13:53","modified_gmt":"2014-04-26T14:13:53","slug":"the-wonder-of-the-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/?p=1006","title":{"rendered":"The Wonder of the Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/cross.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/cross-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Cross of Christ\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1007\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/cross-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/cross.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Heavenly Father,<br \/>\nLet me never forget the wonder of the cross.<br \/>\nMay its torment and suffering remind me of my injustices and fallen nature<br \/>\nMay it be an ever present truth of the relationship I need with You in order to live in faith with my neighbor<br \/>\nMay it always point me to the Truth of Your Word and to Your amazing grace<br \/>\nMay it always remind me of Your great love<br \/>\nIt is the symbol of the finished work of Your salvation and points to Your resurrection and the hope of my eternity with You.<br \/>\nWho was I \u2013 without You? Who am I \u2013 without You?<br \/>\nI live in the pages of Your story. You thought of me before the foundations of the world. You created me from the dust \u2013 and to the dust I will return when Your breath leaves me.<br \/>\nI was nothing and I am nothing \u2013 without You. I can do nothing apart from You.<br \/>\nYou did everything in the beginning. You provided a way for the lost to be found, for suffering to be healed, for sadness to find joy.  Your unfailing love provides hope for the hopeless.  All of Man&#8217;s past, even this present moment and eternity all focus on our faith at Your work on the cross.<br \/>\nMy mere \u201cThank you!\u201d pales to contribute to the glory You deserve.<br \/>\nOh Lord, take my life and may my remaining days sing new songs of praise and shine of the wonder of Your cross to bring you glory.<\/p>\n<p>In Jesus Name, Amen!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heavenly Father, Let me never forget the wonder of the cross. May its torment and suffering remind me of my injustices and fallen nature May it be an ever present truth of the relationship I need with You in order to live in faith with my neighbor May it always point me to the Truth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[119,186,187],"class_list":["post-1006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-worship","tag-christ","tag-cross","tag-wonder"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfZYJd-ge","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1006"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions\/1019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}