{"id":106,"date":"2016-03-03T02:58:59","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T02:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allhis.org\/?p=106"},"modified":"2016-03-03T03:00:21","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T03:00:21","slug":"the-alter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allhis.org\/?p=106","title":{"rendered":"The Alter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Squirming on God&#8217;s alter<br \/>\nSo afraid to lay down my life,<br \/>\nThe Lord lifted up His hand over me<br \/>\nMoonlight flashed off the cold steel knife,<br \/>\nMy mind was reeling and racing<br \/>\nMy thoughts conflicting, confused,<br \/>\nWhy was He choosing this path for me,<br \/>\nAnd the method He now chose to use?<!--more--><br \/>\nWhat could He possibly gain,<br \/>\nBy taking my life from me?<br \/>\nWhy would He want to hurt me,<br \/>\nWhy won&#8217;t He just let me be?<br \/>\nBut then perfect peace settled on me,<br \/>\nAs I never had experienced before,<br \/>\nRemembering the words my Savior said,<br \/>\nIn Me you have life evermore;<br \/>\nSo I closed my eyes and surrendered,<br \/>\nTo the One who holds life in His hand,<br \/>\nHe then laid down the knife and spoke comfort to me,<br \/>\n&#8220;Now I can do with you all I have planned.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mark Tinjum\u00a0\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Squirming on God&#8217;s alter So afraid to lay down my life, The Lord lifted up His hand over me Moonlight flashed off the cold steel knife, My mind was reeling and racing My thoughts conflicting, confused, Why was He choosing this path for me, And the method He now chose to use?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7f2Ml-1I","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allhis.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allhis.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allhis.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allhis.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allhis.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/allhis.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"https:\/\/allhis.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allhis.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allhis.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allhis.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}