{"id":9964,"date":"2021-11-11T06:37:15","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T12:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/devotional-on-mark-15\/"},"modified":"2021-10-26T15:21:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T20:21:17","slug":"devotional-on-mark-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/devotional-on-mark-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Devotional on Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15744\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15744\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/100_2822.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/100_2822-1024x642.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"602\" class=\"size-large wp-image-15744\" srcset=\"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/100_2822-1024x642.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/100_2822-300x188.jpg 300w, http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/100_2822-768x482.jpg 768w, http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/100_2822-1536x963.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/100_2822.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15744\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2014 &#8211; Point Whitehorn Marine Reserve &#8211; near Birch Bay, WA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At the cross <\/p>\n<p>Mark 15: Jesus groaned out of the depths.<\/p>\n<p>The Gospel writer takes us to cruel Golgotha, a place of torture and death.  This is no well-intentioned passion play in which the special effects man tries to convince us of the pain and suffering while keeping in mind that some precious souls in the audience don\u2019t want it to be too real.  These are real nails being driven into real flesh.  This is real blood, real suffering.  Our Lord is not only being killed in this horrible way but he\u2019s carrying a spiritual burden of sin and separation from his Father that\u2019s beyond my understanding.  Before Pilate he remained silent, but now, out of the depths of his suffering he groans under the weight of it all.  I want to look away and think about other things but that groan draws me back and I look up into his face, into his eyes.  He mouths the words, \u201cI love you.\u201d  My eyes fill with tears as he breathes his last.<\/p>\n<p>Take Away: For me he died.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the cross Mark 15: Jesus groaned out of the depths. The Gospel writer takes us to cruel Golgotha, a place of torture and death. This is no well-intentioned passion play in which the special effects man tries to convince us of the pain and suffering while keeping in mind that some precious souls in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1517,1428],"tags":[1210,232,473,1049,1073],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9964"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9964"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15746,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9964\/revisions\/15746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}