{"id":1648,"date":"2019-06-16T08:51:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-16T16:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=1648"},"modified":"2019-06-16T08:51:04","modified_gmt":"2019-06-16T16:51:04","slug":"devotion-1-john-31a-awash-in-the-fathers-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=1648","title":{"rendered":"Devotion      1 John 3:1a     Awash In The Father\u2019s Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"yiv7387219845ydp519783cbMsoNoSpacing\"><b>1 John 3:1a\u00a0<\/b>\u2013\u00a0<i>See what great love\u00a0the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God!\u00a0And that is what we are!<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7387219845ydp519783cbMsoNoSpacing\"><span class=\"yiv7387219845ydp519783cbtext\">Father God who loves us so completely, so dearly and so perfectly, we love You.\u00a0 I was blessed to have a Father who loved me when I was so often unlovable.\u00a0 It hinted at the eternal and great love you have for us.\u00a0 You know, Almighty God, how many times I have cried to You with a broken and bleeding heart.\u00a0 You know my shame.\u00a0 You know how I have often hurt the deepest the ones I love the most.\u00a0 When I did that, I failed you.\u00a0 Oh it hurts to say.\u00a0 But Lord, always and without variation you have loved me through it all.\u00a0 You corrected, but never rebuked.\u00a0 You were tender when I deserved a beating.\u00a0 Oh Your love dear Father!\u00a0 Your love lifts me from the lowest pits to the highest highs.\u00a0 When I am most unlovable Your love always remains.\u00a0 Your love has never needed to change, and it doesn\u2019t, it is perfect.\u00a0 When I should have thrown into the trash heap, you hugged the stinking mess I was and in Your love, in Your embrace, I was cleansed and healed.\u00a0 You God are amazing!\u00a0 You are my hero and my everything and I keep my eyes on You!\u00a0 I am a child who adores His Father and who so deeply desires to be with his Father at every moment and be like him in every way.\u00a0 Lord thank You for patiently moving me closer to being like You.\u00a0 Thank You for Your expert craftsmanship.\u00a0 I know the security of Your love and never fear to lose it.\u00a0 Not because of who I am but because of who You are.\u00a0 Thank you Father!\u00a0 I treasure You!\u00a0 Yes, You are my hero and You are the only truly flawless hero.\u00a0 I love you Lord God!\u00a0 I love you Father!\u00a0 Thank you eternally!\u00a0 Thank you dear and loving Father God!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7387219845ydp519783cbMsoNoSpacing\"><b>Psalm 150:6<\/b>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7387219845ydp519783cbMsoNoSpacing\"><b>Micah 7:7<\/b>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0But as for me, I watch\u00a0in hope\u00a0for the\u00a0Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear\u00a0me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7387219845ydp519783cbMsoNoSpacing\"><b>Micah 6:8<\/b>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0He has shown You, O man, what\u00a0is\u00a0good; And what does the\u00a0Lord\u00a0require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with Your God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 John 3:1a\u00a0\u2013\u00a0See what great love\u00a0the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God!\u00a0And that is what we are! Father God who loves us so completely, so dearly and so perfectly, we love You.\u00a0 I was blessed to have a Father who loved me when I was so often unlovable.\u00a0&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192],"tags":[100,94,17],"class_list":["post-1648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotion","tag-john","tag-micah","tag-psalm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1649,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648\/revisions\/1649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}