{"id":30,"date":"2008-01-16T15:57:22","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T20:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newlifedesign.wordpress.com\/2008\/01\/16\/dearly-loved-children\/"},"modified":"2008-01-16T15:57:22","modified_gmt":"2008-01-16T20:57:22","slug":"dearly-loved-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/16\/dearly-loved-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Dearly Loved Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Be imitators of God, therefore, as <strong>dearly loved children<\/strong> and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. &#8221;\u00a0 ~Ephesians 5:1-2<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Therefore, as God&#8217;s chosen people, holy and <strong>dearly loved<\/strong>, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.&#8221;\u00a0 ~Colossians 3:12<\/p>\n<p>What does it mean to be a dearly loved child of God?\u00a0 In the Greek it&#8217;s translated like this:\u00a0 <em>esteemed, worthy of love, an intimate relationship of love, friendship, and trust<\/em>.\u00a0 I believe that&#8217;s exactly what our hearts long for&#8211;love, affection, intimacy, value.\u00a0 The great news is that in Christ, we have it already!\u00a0 We don&#8217;t have to seek, search, or strive to get what we long for.\u00a0 We already have it!\u00a0 Stop, recognize, and rest in the identity God has given&#8211;His dearly loved child.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca:-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. &#8221;\u00a0 ~Ephesians 5:1-2 &#8220;Therefore, as God&#8217;s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.&#8221;\u00a0 ~Colossians 3:12 What does it mean to be a dearly loved child of God?\u00a0 In the Greek it&#8217;s translated like this:\u00a0 esteemed, worthy of love, an intimate relationship of love, friendship, and trust.\u00a0 I believe that&#8217;s exactly what our hearts long for&#8211;love, affection, intimacy, value.\u00a0 The great news is that in Christ, we have it already!\u00a0 We don&#8217;t have to seek, search, or strive to get what we long for.\u00a0 We already have it!\u00a0 Stop, recognize, and rest in the identity God has given&#8211;His dearly loved child. Rebecca:-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}