{"id":688,"date":"2020-12-24T01:48:20","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T01:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/?p=688"},"modified":"2020-12-23T19:49:14","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T19:49:14","slug":"advent-a-thrill-of-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/advent-a-thrill-of-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Advent \u2013 A thrill of hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Thursday, December 24<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Advent \u2013 A thrill of hope <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. \u00a0<strong>\u00a0Isaiah 9:6<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today I\u2019d like to take a look back on the carol Oh Holy Night Sing. Particularly this part of the song:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0A thrill of hope, the weary world rejoices<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>For yonder breaks a new and glorious morn&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Fall on your knees, oh, hear the Angels&#8217; voices<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Oh, night divine, oh, night when Christ was born<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Oh, night divine, oh, night, oh night divine<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There is nothing like the announcement of a new baby to bring excitement in a family. As the song says, \u201ca thrill of hope, the weary world rejoices\u201d. Many things come to pass with the birth of a new child. For a season, everyone forgets their own weariness and own problems. This tiny creature will change people\u2019s lives\u2026forever.\u201d \u00a0This feeling is no different than that shared on that holy night when our Savior was born. Imagine the joy that was evident at Christ\u2019s birth in that His physical birth would ultimately change mankind forever.<\/p>\n<p>We can have spiritual birth because of His physical birth. John 10:10 says, \u201cOne\u2026came\u2026that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.\u201d The same excitement that comes from physical birth also occurs when we experience spiritual birth in that moment when we ask Christ to become our personal Savior and Lord of our lives. In fact, many people now celebrate both their physical and spiritual birthdays because they understand the day Christ came into their life is just as important as the day they came into being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, December 24 Advent \u2013 A thrill of hope For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. \u00a0\u00a0Isaiah 9:6 Today I\u2019d like to take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","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=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":690,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions\/690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}