{"id":1269,"date":"2024-12-22T14:08:43","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T22:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/?p=1269"},"modified":"2025-01-02T14:26:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T22:26:49","slug":"red-sky-at-dawn-matthew-163","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/?p=1269","title":{"rendered":"Heaven On Earth \u2013 Matthew 1:18-21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2024-Blog-December-Week-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1279\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2024-Blog-December-Week-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2024-Blog-December-Week-4.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2024-Blog-December-Week-4-300x243.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The contrast between the passion and intensity of the previous photo and the peaceful pastel of this one is nothing short of amazing. There is only a hint of the upcoming blast of sunlight just below the ridge. I don\u2019t think I\u2019d ever seen a lavender sunrise before I moved to this valley. The silent calmness of a winter sunrise like this is so vastly different than the cacophony of song birds zooming back and forth between the forest and the feeders that greets the sunrise in summer. Heaven on Earth \u2013 yes, that is where I live! Can you hear the angel voices? Are you experiencing \u201cheaven on earth\u201d wherever you are?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Joseph knew what his role was, and he accepted it. He obviously knew the voice of God and understood that he must not question God\u2019s plan. What would the world have been like if either Joseph or Mary had been unwilling to sacrificially accept God\u2019s plan for them? Have there been times when you have been unwilling to follow God\u2019s clear calling on your life? Pray that you will always be open to His leading \u2013 and unquestioningly obedient.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Hark! Hark, my soul! Angelic songs are swelling \u2026&#8221;\u00a0 F. W. Fabe<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The contrast between the passion and intensity of the previous photo and the peaceful pastel of this one is nothing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/?p=1269\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"more-button\">Continue reading &gt;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Heaven On Earth \u2013 Matthew 1:18-21<\/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_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}},"categories":[2],"tags":[14,11,15,20],"class_list":["post-1269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotionals","tag-christian-devotional","tag-christian-lifestyle","tag-devotional-thought","tag-selkirk-mountain-inspiration"],"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\/1269","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=1269"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1280,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions\/1280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}