{"id":1741,"date":"2015-02-13T21:55:31","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T21:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/laurel\/?p=1741"},"modified":"2015-02-13T21:55:31","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T21:55:31","slug":"if-god-is-for-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/laurel\/?p=1741","title":{"rendered":"If God Is for Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some days when the future looms large and uncertain, this is enough:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? <span id=\"en-NIV-28149\">He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all\u2014how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?<\/span> <span id=\"en-NIV-28150\">Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies.<\/span> <span id=\"en-NIV-28151\">Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died\u2014more than that, who was raised to life\u2014is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.<\/span> <span id=\"en-NIV-28152\">\u00a0Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?&#8221; (Romans 8:31-35)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In every loss, every hard place, every weary struggle of uncertainty, every paralyzing fear&#8230; we know this one thing for sure: that God is praying for us and with us; He loves us; He is on our side.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">~~~~~~~<\/p>\n<p class=\"verse\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;He holds the stars and He holds my heart,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>With healing hands that bear the scars,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The rugged cross where He died for me&#8211;<\/em><br \/>\n<em>My only hope, my everything.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Jesus, He loves me;<br \/>\nHe loves me; He is for me.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<em>(Jesus Loves Me, Chris Tomlin)<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"verse\" style=\"text-align: center;\">~~~~~~~<\/p>\n<p class=\"verse\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;He is mine and I am His, given to me as well as for me; I am never so much mine as when I am His, or so much lost to myself until lost in Him&#8230;&#8221; \u00a0(The Valley of Vision)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some days when the future looms large and uncertain, this is enough: &#8220;What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/laurel\/?p=1741\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning-to-love"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9XvNH-s5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/laurel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/laurel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/laurel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/laurel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/laurel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1741"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/laurel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1744,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/laurel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions\/1744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/laurel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/laurel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/laurel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}