{"id":711,"date":"2010-12-02T11:27:05","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T16:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bottlerockettheology.com\/?p=357"},"modified":"2010-12-02T11:27:05","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T16:27:05","slug":"the-glory-of-the-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/?p=711","title":{"rendered":"The glory of the Lord &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The glory of the Lord &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This really does need to be our grand vision for life. Now and forever. <\/p>\n<p>So we need to know what it means &#8211; &#8220;to the glory of God!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I believe that this is our release, our ultimate freedom, when we bow our lives, our actual lives, beneath this grandest scheme for life. <\/p>\n<p>No mere definitions or word play will quench our thirst for bringing pleasure and highest honor to God. <\/p>\n<p>This is the &#8220;more&#8221; that we all pursue. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;More&#8221; is God. <\/p>\n<p>Not money, not career, not relationships &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Not even our religion!  <\/p>\n<p>Highest honor to God in everything!  This is glory to God. I trust him, his words, his direction in my life and this world. <\/p>\n<p>I believe his words and live them no matter where they lead me. No matter what loss. Including my life, both literally and figuratively. <\/p>\n<p>My love relationship with the Sovereign Lord of the universe expresses itself in devoted obedience and trust. <\/p>\n<p>Glory to God, past the cliche, past my lips to my heart. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The glory of the Lord &#8230; This really does need to be our grand vision for life. Now and forever. So we need to know what it means &#8211; &#8220;to the glory of God!&#8221; I believe that this is our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/?p=711\">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-711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3dxA8-bt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711","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=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}