{"id":4768,"date":"2018-07-22T14:00:39","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T18:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/?p=4768"},"modified":"2018-07-22T13:07:39","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T17:07:39","slug":"love-is-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/2018\/07\/22\/love-is-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Is Of GOD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Love Is Of GOD<\/p>\n<p>BELOVED, let us love:<br \/>\nlove is of God;<br \/>\nIn God alone hath love<br \/>\nits true abode.<\/p>\n<p>Beloved, let us love:<br \/>\nfor they who love,<br \/>\nThey only, are His sons,<br \/>\nborn from above.<\/p>\n<p>Beloved, let us love:<br \/>\nfor love is rest,<br \/>\nAnd he who loveth not<br \/>\nabides unblest.<\/p>\n<p>Beloved, let us love:<br \/>\nfor love is light,<br \/>\nAnd he who loveth not<br \/>\ndwelleth in night.<\/p>\n<p>Beloved, let us love:<br \/>\nfor only thus<br \/>\nShall we behold that God<br \/>\nwho loveth us.<\/p>\n<p>~Horatius Bonar from Hymns of Horatius Bonar<\/p>\n<p>Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.<\/p>\n<p>John, from 1 John 4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love Is Of GOD BELOVED, let us love: love is of God; In God alone hath love its true abode. Beloved, let us love: for they who love, They only, are His sons, born from above. Beloved, let us love: for love is rest, And he who loveth not abides unblest. Beloved, let us love:&hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"readmore-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/2018\/07\/22\/love-is-of-god\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read <\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"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":[12,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hymns","category-love"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1MnZf-1eU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4768"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4770,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768\/revisions\/4770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}