{"id":678,"date":"2010-08-26T22:30:01","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T02:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bottlerockettheology.com\/?p=211"},"modified":"2010-08-26T22:30:01","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T02:30:01","slug":"this-is-what-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/?p=678","title":{"rendered":"This is what happened &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>(Esther 1.1a) &#8220;This is what happened during the time of Xerxes &#8230;&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;This is what happened.&#8221;\u00a0 I sat down to read my Bible yesterday evening and that was the first thing I read &#8211; &#8220;This is what happened.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And I thought &#8211; God&#8217;s word still has me.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t gotten over it; haven&#8217;t lost the wonder; the words still capture me.<\/p>\n<p>I have in my hands the words of God.\u00a0 Amazing grace!<\/p>\n<p>You are probably familiar with the line in movie Jerry Maguire &#8211; &#8220;You had me at hello.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, yesterday evening, God had me at &#8220;This is what happened.&#8221;\u00a0 With complete confidence I can know what happened, I can believe that God is speaking through the written word of these events in Esther.<\/p>\n<p>Total accuracy and reliability of events that occurred almost 2,500 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>No rewriting history, no revisionism, no academic fraud where the research will one day be exposed.<\/p>\n<p>Believe it &#8211; &#8220;This is what happened.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For all the things I make a mess of; my sinfulness, my sometimes lack of faith, general stupidity.<\/p>\n<p>I get this one.\u00a0 I bow and I tremble when God talks.<\/p>\n<p>And I believe.<\/p>\n<p>When he says &#8220;this is what happened,&#8221; I know I have an account of events that not only stand the scrutiny of time and criticism, but these words stand forever.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Father.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Esther 1.1a) &#8220;This is what happened during the time of Xerxes &#8230;&#8221; &#8220;This is what happened.&#8221;\u00a0 I sat down to read my Bible yesterday evening and that was the first thing I read &#8211; &#8220;This is what happened.&#8221; And I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/?p=678\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3dxA8-aW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}