{"id":877,"date":"2012-04-06T21:10:19","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T04:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hodgkins.caryschmidt.com\/?p=877"},"modified":"2012-04-06T21:10:19","modified_gmt":"2012-04-07T04:10:19","slug":"resurrection-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hodgkins.caryschmidt.com\/?p=877","title":{"rendered":"resurrection hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4629\" title=\"storm\" src=\"http:\/\/www.caryschmidt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/storm.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"241\" \/><br \/>\nBefore the resurrection, there is a cross. Dark. Death. Hopeless.<br \/>\nBefore the rainbow, there is a storm. Howling. Desolate. Destructive.<br \/>\nBefore the sunrise, there is night. Lonely. Black. Cold.<br \/>\nBefore Spring, there is Winter. Frigid. Barren. Bitter.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nBefore healing, there is sickness. Painful. Weak. Groaning.<br \/>\nBefore the triumph, there is testing. Wrenching. Desperate. Difficult.<br \/>\nBefore the blessing, there is a burden. Heavy. Weary. Exhausting.<br \/>\nBefore hope, there is hurt. Loss. Despair. Anguish.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t like the cross, the storm, the night, the winter, the sickness, the testing, the burden, or the hurt.<br \/>\nBut Jesus resurrection makes hope possible from that which is utterly and completely hopeless.<br \/>\nHis empty tomb thunders a miracle in the face of the impossible.<br \/>\nHis triumph declares the death sentence of death itself.<br \/>\nBecause of Jesus, we are never hopeless.<br \/>\nBecause He lives, we are never alone.<br \/>\nBecause He died, He knows the feelings of our infirmities.<br \/>\nBecause He rose again, we know our darkest night will climax with a spectacular sunrise.<br \/>\nBecause He walks beside me, I can rest in Him until I see Him face to face.<br \/>\nIf you know Him&#8230; then you know&#8230;<br \/>\nTruly\u2014He lives!<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;He is not here: for he is risen, as he said&#8230;&#8221; (Matthew 28:6)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the resurrection, there is a cross. Dark. Death. Hopeless. Before the rainbow, there is a storm. Howling. Desolate. Destructive. Before the sunrise, there is night. Lonely. Black. Cold. Before Spring, there is Winter. Frigid. Barren. Bitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biblical-insight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hodgkins.caryschmidt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hodgkins.caryschmidt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hodgkins.caryschmidt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hodgkins.caryschmidt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hodgkins.caryschmidt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hodgkins.caryschmidt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hodgkins.caryschmidt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hodgkins.caryschmidt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hodgkins.caryschmidt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}