{"id":1675,"date":"2022-02-24T01:01:20","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T01:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/?p=1675"},"modified":"2022-02-21T19:03:59","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T19:03:59","slug":"amazing-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/amazing-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazing Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Thursday, February 24<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Amazing Truth \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He (Jesus) is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of His nature, and He upholds the universe by the word of His power.<strong> Hebrews 1:3<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In today\u2019s verse, some translations use \u2018<em>all things<\/em>\u2019 or \u2018<em>everything\u2019<\/em> instead of the word \u2018<em>universe\u2019<\/em>, as the ESV does, but it was the ESV rendering that I\u2019d like to focus on. I\u2019ve been thinking of that old song, often reserved for Sunday School children, \u2018<em>He\u2019s got the whole world in His hands\u2019<\/em>. The verses become progressively more personal, eventually addressing you and me with, \u2018<em>He\u2019s got you and me, brother, in His hands, He\u2019s got you and me, sister, in His hands<\/em>\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>This verse is telling us that the vast universe which we live in, and everything in it, is literally held together by the authority and powerful word of Jesus, the Son of God.<\/p>\n<p>So when it feels like your life is spiraling out of control, just hold onto these words and remember that God has you covered in His hands.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prayer for today<\/strong>: <em>Dear Lord Jesus, when life seems out of my control, please help me to remember that it\u2019s never out of Yours. Amen.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, February 24 Amazing Truth \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He (Jesus) is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of His nature, and He upholds the universe by the word of His power. Hebrews 1:3 In today\u2019s verse, some translations use \u2018all things\u2019 or \u2018everything\u2019 instead of the word \u2018universe\u2019, as the ESV does, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1679,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675\/revisions\/1679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}