{"id":311,"date":"2015-12-22T11:05:47","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T16:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/geoff-mcnabb\/?p=311"},"modified":"2015-12-22T11:05:47","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T16:05:47","slug":"happy-christmas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/geoff-mcnabb\/2015\/12\/22\/happy-christmas-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><u>Thoughts on Christmas<\/u><\/p>\n<p>The story of Zacharias &amp; Elizabeth has really struck us this Christmas \u2013 they had spent a lifetime waiting and wishing for a child, only to face barrenness and the cultural shame associated with it.\u00a0 Yet, Zacharias &amp; Elizabeth remained faithful to the Lord and are record in Luke as being \u201crighteous in the sight of God.\u201d\u00a0 They could have been bitter and rejected God, instead they chose to faithfully serve Him, regardless of their personal pain.\u00a0 The beautiful part of the story is that God was using this time in their life to highlight HIS PLAN, so that when John came along, it was a miraculous event, heralding the Saviour\u2019s coming.\u00a0 May we too yield ourselves to HIS PLAN, whatever that means to each one of us.<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/geoff-mcnabb\/2015\/12\/22\/happy-christmas-2\/img_2470\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-312\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-312\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/geoff-mcnabb\/files\/2015\/12\/IMG_2470-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"family photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/geoff-mcnabb\/files\/2015\/12\/IMG_2470-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/geoff-mcnabb\/files\/2015\/12\/IMG_2470-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thoughts on Christmas The story of Zacharias &amp; Elizabeth has really struck us this Christmas \u2013 they had spent a lifetime waiting and wishing for a child, only to face barrenness and the cultural shame associated with it.\u00a0 Yet, Zacharias &amp; Elizabeth remained faithful to the Lord and are record in Luke as being \u201crighteous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1062,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[721,448,637],"class_list":{"0":"post-311","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-family","7":"category-ministry","8":"tag-christmas","9":"tag-ethnos360","10":"tag-new-tribes-mission","11":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/geoff-mcnabb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/geoff-mcnabb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/geoff-mcnabb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/geoff-mcnabb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1062"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/geoff-mcnabb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/geoff-mcnabb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/geoff-mcnabb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/geoff-mcnabb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/geoff-mcnabb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}