{"id":1264,"date":"2024-12-08T08:51:05","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T16:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2024-12-09T08:56:40","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T16:56:40","slug":"out-of-the-fog-john-2031","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/?p=1264","title":{"rendered":"Out of the Fog\u00a9 \u2013 John 20:31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Although this photo was not taken in the \u201choly land,\u201d this landscape in Utah seemed to me to represent what that area might have looked like at certain times of the year. Christmas is coming. Because my youngest son was born on December 16 (he was due on the 23<sup>rd<\/sup>), for the past 37 years, it has been hard for me to \u201cget into\u201d Christmas preparations until after his birthday on December 16. Christmas is, indeed, coming!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I am so awed by the fact that Jesus was \u201cproclaimed\u201d in the Old Testament so many times. Although I was raised in the church, I never knew until adulthood that the events in Jesus\u2019 life were already made known throughout the Old Testament, long before He came to Earth to save us.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;O Love that wilt not let me go, I rest my weary soul in Thee \u2026&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\nGeorge Matheson<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2024-Blog-December-Week-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1266\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2024-Blog-December-Week-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2024-Blog-December-Week-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2024-Blog-December-Week-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9Selkirk Mountain Inspiration 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although this photo was not taken in the \u201choly land,\u201d this landscape in Utah seemed to me to represent what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/?p=1264\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"more-button\">Continue reading &gt;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Out of the Fog\u00a9 \u2013 John 20:31<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1267,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions\/1267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}