{"id":221,"date":"2016-05-08T12:35:58","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T12:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zbat.net\/?p=221"},"modified":"2016-05-08T12:35:58","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T12:35:58","slug":"love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zbat.net\/?p=221","title":{"rendered":"God&#8217;s Love&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It always amazes me to realize the love God has for us. \u00a0Where ever we go, whatever we are doing, whatever the time of day or the place, His love is ever reaching out toward us. \u00a0We cannot escape His Love, there is no place to run!!<\/p>\n<p>The fullness of the Father dwells in Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ lives in us, in our\u00a0bodies. We bring Jesus with us as we go&#8230; When we go to the store, to the workplace, to the park, anywhere and everywhere we go. \u00a0 This is the hope of glory, Jesus Christ lives in us. We get to bring the Love of God with us, to everyone we meet, at work, on the street and even to those at church.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of people have an idea what God is and what His love might be. \u00a0But those who have tasted His love and seen it action in our own lives and to those we come in contact with know, His Love is our source, our life and our strength. \u00a0It is the Love of the Father that powers everything. \u00a0It is why the only begotten son of God came to earth and died for all of us&#8230; The proof of His love for us. \u00a0There is no greater love than this, that one lay down his life for a friend, and Jesus is our true friend.<\/p>\n<p>It is why Peter fell to his knees on that tiny fishing boat when he realized that this Jesus who was teaching from his boat, was the Christ, the one sent from God the Father. \u00a0Peter suddenly knew who he was, a sinner and had experienced the Love of God who was standing right in front of him. He had just seen a miracle of fish filling his net where he knew there were no fish in the deep waters. He had met the Love of God head on. It changed him forever, he experienced what agape love was, face to face. Peter cried out &#8220;Lord&#8221;. \u00a0He had just met his Lord and his God, he had just found the Love of God. \u00a0Forever was Peter changed and the world would itself be changed by this revelation.<\/p>\n<p>And&#8230;\u00a0He is Alive&#8230; Jesus is alive, In us. \u00a0hallelujah.\u00a0hallelujah. hallelujah.<\/p>\n<p>Meditate on what this means while you listen to Kelley Mooney&#8217;s version of\u00a0Leonard Cohen&#8217;s &#8220;Hallelujah&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h350JjUsWKo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; It always amazes me to realize the love God has for us. \u00a0Where ever we go, whatever we are doing, whatever the time of day or the place, His love is ever reaching out toward us. \u00a0We cannot escape<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.zbat.net\/?p=221\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">God&#8217;s Love&#8230;<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rods-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zbat.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zbat.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zbat.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zbat.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zbat.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zbat.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zbat.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zbat.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zbat.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zbat.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}