{"id":5814,"date":"2020-08-26T11:36:25","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T11:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=5814"},"modified":"2020-08-26T11:36:25","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T11:36:25","slug":"%ef%bb%bfas-though-it-had-never-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=5814","title":{"rendered":"\ufeffAs though it had never been!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>As though it had never been!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Octavius Winslow)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beloved, soon, O how soon! All that now loads the heart with care, and wrings it with sorrow \u2014 all that dims the eye with tears, and renders the day anxious and the night sleepless \u2014 will be as though it had never been!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emerging from the entanglement, the dreariness, the solitude, the loneliness, and the temptations of the wilderness \u2014 you shall enter upon your everlasting rest, your unfading inheritance, where there is no sorrow, no sin, no sunset, no midnight darkness! But all is one perfect, cloudless, eternal day \u2014 for Jesus is the joy, the light, and the glory thereof!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNo longer will there be any curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and His servants will serve Him. They will see His face, and His name will be on their foreheads. There will be no more night. They will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, for the Lord God will give them light. And they will reign for ever and ever!\u201d Revelation 22:3-5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As though it had never been! (Octavius Winslow) Beloved, soon, O how soon! All that now loads the heart with care, and wrings it with sorrow \u2014 all that dims the eye with tears, and renders the day anxious and the night sleepless \u2014 will be as though it had never been! Emerging from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-octavius-winslow","category-heaven"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5815,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5814\/revisions\/5815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}