{"id":9990,"date":"2021-12-07T06:37:07","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T12:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/devotional-on-john\/"},"modified":"2021-12-02T09:24:57","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T15:24:57","slug":"devotional-on-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/devotional-on-john\/","title":{"rendered":"Devotional on John"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15835\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15835\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/100_2906.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/100_2906-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"541\" class=\"size-large wp-image-15835\" srcset=\"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/100_2906-1024x577.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/100_2906-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/100_2906-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/100_2906-1536x865.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/100_2906.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15835\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2014 &#8211; Riding the Anacortes Ferry to Friday Harbor, WA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>No shallow water here<\/p>\n<p>John 1: The Word was God.<\/p>\n<p>Intentionally paralleling the opening words of Genesis John begins his gospel with poetry.  In the first words of the Bible I\u2019m told that God \u201cspoke\u201d the world into existence.  \u201cGod said&#8230;and there was.\u201d  Now, I\u2019m told that in recent days God has spoken again.  This time, not creating a new world but, rather, creating salvation.  This time, God has spoken in a man and that man is the Word of God.  Everything I need to know about salvation, everything necessary for salvation is accomplished in the living Word of God.  The One John introduces here is more than just a man speaking God\u2019s words.  He is, in man, God, himself.  This, my friend, is a huge concept that can\u2019t be explained in one short devotional paragraph.  It can, though, be summed up in a sentence: \u201cthe Word was God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Take Away: To know Jesus is to know God.  To know Jesus is to know Salvation.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No shallow water here John 1: The Word was God. Intentionally paralleling the opening words of Genesis John begins his gospel with poetry. In the first words of the Bible I\u2019m told that God \u201cspoke\u201d the world into existence. \u201cGod said&#8230;and there was.\u201d Now, I\u2019m told that in recent days God has spoken again. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1507,1428],"tags":[1257,227,438,941],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9990"}],"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=9990"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15892,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9990\/revisions\/15892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}