{"id":1270,"date":"2024-12-15T11:14:34","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T19:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/?p=1270"},"modified":"2024-12-20T11:18:53","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T19:18:53","slug":"angel-visit-luke-130-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/?p=1270","title":{"rendered":"Angel Visit \u2013 Luke 1:30-33"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2024-Blog-December-Week-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1271\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2024-Blog-December-Week-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2024-Blog-December-Week-3.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2024-Blog-December-Week-3-300x265.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>When I was choosing photos to pair with pre-Christmas verses, the intense coloration of this sunset really \u201cspoke\u201d to me about what an angel visit in the middle of the night might look like. It is as \u201cunearthly\u201d as any sunset photo I have ever taken, I think. I do have another \u201cunearthly\u201d looking sunset photo, but it has the appearance of a frightful monster, so I did not even consider including it in this little devotional book.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Can you imagine being Mary? Sure, she believed in God. But to have Him single her out for perhaps the most important \u201cmission\u201d ever assigned in history? Wow! Would that we could be so obedient and faithful.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The night is dark and I am far from home; Lead Thou me on!&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\nJohn H. Newman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was choosing photos to pair with pre-Christmas verses, the intense coloration of this sunset really \u201cspoke\u201d to me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/?p=1270\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"more-button\">Continue reading &gt;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Angel Visit \u2013 Luke 1:30-33<\/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":[45,63,15],"class_list":["post-1270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotionals","tag-christmas","tag-christmas-devotional","tag-devotional-thought"],"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\/1270","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=1270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1272,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions\/1272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}