{"id":160,"date":"2008-03-17T01:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T01:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lrtministry.org\/a-new-perspective\/"},"modified":"2008-03-17T01:38:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T01:38:00","slug":"a-new-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/a-new-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was away for a 48 hour retreat recently and God showed me a new perspective, while maybe not new but a fresh perspective on the sacrifice that Jesus made for us.  I had been reading John 13 and the first verse talks about how Jesus knew that His time was up.  I laid down thinking about this and, I know this may sound morbid, but starting thinking about how I would feel if my own son were to die.  The emotions I felt must have been like those God was feeling at this time in the life of His Son.  It wasn&#8217;t until I was in church Saturday that I was struck that this is the beginning of Holy week and that though Jesus died, God knew also that He would rise again.  I then thought how I would rejoice knowing that even if my son were to die I would also see him again some day.  As I took communion that day, it had a whole different feeling for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was away for a 48 hour retreat recently and God showed me a new perspective, while maybe not new but a fresh perspective on the sacrifice that Jesus made for us. I had been reading John 13 and the first verse talks about how Jesus knew that His time was up. I laid down &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/a-new-perspective\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A New Perspective&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xZq6-2A","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}