{"id":4589,"date":"2026-07-08T01:01:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T01:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/?p=4589"},"modified":"2026-07-05T20:04:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T20:04:20","slug":"perfectly-loved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/perfectly-loved\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfectly Loved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Wednesday, July 8<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Perfectly Loved<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!&#8221; <\/em><strong>I John 3:1<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Every heart has empty places. Some are shaped by disappointment, others by rejection, failure, regret, or loss. We try to fill those empty spaces with success, relationships, possessions, or the approval of others, but nothing truly satisfies the deepest longing of the human heart. Only God&#8217;s love can do that.<\/p>\n<p>The Father&#8217;s love is unlike any love we have ever known. It doesn&#8217;t depend on our accomplishments or disappear when we fail. It doesn&#8217;t keep score or withhold affection until we&#8217;ve earned it. God&#8217;s love meets us in our brokenness, embraces us in our weakness, and remains steadfast through every season of life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prayer for today<\/strong>: <em>Father, thank You for loving me with a perfect and unfailing love. Thank You that Your love reaches into the broken places of my heart and meets me in my weakness. I am strong because You love me. Amen <\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, July 8 Perfectly Loved &#8220;See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!&#8221; I John 3:1\u00a0 Every heart has empty places. Some are shaped by disappointment, others by rejection, failure, regret, or loss. We try to fill those empty [&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-4589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4589","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=4589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4590,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4589\/revisions\/4590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}