{"id":1236,"date":"2024-10-13T15:06:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-13T22:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/?p=1236"},"modified":"2024-10-20T15:11:17","modified_gmt":"2024-10-20T22:11:17","slug":"the-beginning-genesis-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/?p=1236","title":{"rendered":"The Beginning\u00a9 \u2013 Genesis 1:5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2024-Blog-October-Week-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1237\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2024-Blog-October-Week-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"893\" height=\"670\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2024-Blog-October-Week-2.jpg 893w, http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2024-Blog-October-Week-2-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2024-Blog-October-Week-2-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 799px) 94vw, (max-width: 1023px) 67vw, (max-width: 1365px) 62vw, 1037\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This early morning scene brought to mind how wild the sky must have looked when God was first beginning His creation. There is a wildness about it that suggests a barely ordered world emerging from nowhere \u2013 from everywhere \u2013 from the mind of the Most High God. That is what I see when I look at it, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>The awesome and powerful God who separated light out of the darkness and began our world desires a relationship with you. Can you believe it? It seems impossible, but it is true. He is approachable, not distant; He is loving, not cruel; He wants what is best for you. Seek Him in the light and in the darkness. He will never leave you.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The morning light is breaking, the darkness disappears \u2026&#8221; S. F. Smith<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This early morning scene brought to mind how wild the sky must have looked when God was first beginning His &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/?p=1236\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"more-button\">Continue reading &gt;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Beginning\u00a9 \u2013 Genesis 1:5<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[127,128,62],"class_list":["post-1236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotionals","tag-nature-devotional-thought","tag-scripture-in-nature","tag-selkirk-mountain-inspiration-1"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1238,"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions\/1238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}