{"id":1274,"date":"2024-12-29T14:03:40","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T22:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2025-01-02T14:07:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T22:07:27","slug":"hes-here-luke-210-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/?p=1274","title":{"rendered":"He\u2019s Here! \u2013 Luke 2:10-11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2024-Blog-December-Week-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1275\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2024-Blog-December-Week-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2024-Blog-December-Week-5.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2024-Blog-December-Week-5-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Jesus is Born! Nothing will ever be the same again. This final photo of the year (and the Christmas season) displays the last remnants of a spectacular sunset when the \u201ctwilight\u201d is really taking over and darkness has \u201cfallen.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I am afraid of the dark, so I don\u2019t suppose I could have ever been a shepherdess watching flocks at night. How awesome it must have been to be approached by \u201cthe angel of the Lord\u201d and then serenaded by a \u201cmultitude of the heavenly host praising God \u2026\u201d This passage indicates that the shepherds talked among themselves after the heavenly host departed. And they didn\u2019t say, \u201cOh, go back to sleep, we\u2019ll digest it all tomorrow.\u201d They went \u201cnow\u201d with \u201chaste\u201d to Bethlehem. Can we be that excited about Jesus? Let\u2019s not talk about it, let\u2019s just DO it! If you aren\u2019t already, get busy for the Lord today!<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;O come, all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant \u2026&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\nTranslation by Frederick Oakeley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus is Born! Nothing will ever be the same again. This final photo of the year (and the Christmas season) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/?p=1274\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"more-button\">Continue reading &gt;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">He\u2019s Here! \u2013 Luke 2:10-11<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-1274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotionals"],"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\/1274","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=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1276,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions\/1276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}