{"id":963,"date":"2010-03-31T07:00:05","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T06:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/?p=963"},"modified":"2010-02-20T12:24:06","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T11:24:06","slug":"lent-devotions-2010-wednesday-31-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/2010\/03\/31\/lent-devotions-2010-wednesday-31-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Lent Devotions 2010: Wednesday 31 March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>\u201cFor the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.\u201d\u00a0 I Corinthians 1:18<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This verse sounds contradictory, doesn\u2019t it?\u00a0 We are taught to believe that that Christ\u2019s message of love and salvation and forgiveness should be given to all.\u00a0 And so it is \u2013 freely.\u00a0 God does not say, \u201cFred Smith can have his sins forgiven, but Joe Bloggs cannot.\u201d\u00a0 Joe Bloggs may choose to ignore Christ our Lord, but Christ won\u2019t ignore Mr Bloggs.\u00a0 He is there for the worst unbeliever who may come to know God.\u00a0 If you do not believe in God, then to those the words of the Bible, the deeds of the Cross are indeed just a folly, a story.\u00a0 They will perish, and this will be their end.\u00a0 For those who believe in our Risen Lord, we too will perish \u2013 everyone does &#8211; but this will be our beginning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We pray for all those who have heard, yet not accepted or understood Your Word that one day they too will come to Christ and become Your disciples and that those who already follow You reach out to tell the wonderful story of the Cross to others in darkness.\u00a0 Amen.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFor the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.\u201d\u00a0 I Corinthians 1:18 This verse sounds contradictory, doesn\u2019t it?\u00a0 We are taught to believe that that Christ\u2019s message of love and salvation and forgiveness should be given to all.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lent-devotions-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":964,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions\/964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}