{"id":1365,"date":"2009-12-21T09:23:45","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T15:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=1365"},"modified":"2009-12-21T09:23:45","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T15:23:45","slug":"searching-for-a-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2009\/searching-for-a-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Searching for a Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"animo\">\n<h2>Discerning the Star<\/h2>\n<p><i>When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy.<\/i><\/p>\n<h3>Matthew 2:10<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lectura\" style=\"width:250px\">Reading:<\/p>\n<h3>Matthew 2:7-9, 16-23<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p>As the wise men, Herod wanted to find the Child, that One born King of the Jews:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"bible\">&#8220;And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go and search diligently for the young child; and when ye have found him, bring me word again, that I may come and worship him also&#8221;<\/span> (Matthew 2:8).<\/p>\n<p>The wise men wanted to worship the Child; Herod wanted war with the Child.<\/p>\n<p>Is my spirit this season in worship of the Child or is it at war with the Child?<\/p>\n<p>On this business of searching, consider this: the Child wanted to be found!<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"bible\">&#8220;When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was&#8221;<\/span> (Matthew 2:9).<\/p>\n<p>The Child indeed wanted to be God <i>with<\/i> us!<\/p>\n<p>He still does.<\/p>\n<p>I want to remember to acknowledge Him today.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wallpaper\"><a href=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/that-it-might-be-fulfilled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/that-it-might-be-fulfilled.jpg\" alt=\"The Scriptures say in Matthew 2:23 -- That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets\" title=\"God's Word says: That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets (Matthew 2:23)\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>from Matthew 2:23<\/i><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discerning the Star When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy. Matthew 2:10 Reading: Matthew 2:7-9, 16-23 As the wise men, Herod wanted to find the Child, that One born King of the Jews: &#8220;And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go and search diligently for the young child; and when [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[31],"class_list":{"0":"post-1365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-matthew","7":"tag-way-of-righteousness","8":"h-entry","9":"hentry","10":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-m1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}