{"id":1299,"date":"2009-03-28T11:01:41","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T11:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=296"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:29:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:29:41","slug":"happy-endings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1299","title":{"rendered":"Happy Endings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Let us begin today to muse from Romans 8:28-30, a section I&#8217;m calling <em>happy endings<\/em>. Our lives or liter with many endings. Every child of God will have the same words written over their end, &#8221; and they lived happily ever after&#8221;. In verse 28 I see the <em>principles \u00a0of happy endings<\/em>. A principle is something fixed in cement, worth dieing for. The great truth is in the phrase &#8220;and we know&#8221;. The word know means to be intimate with. It is close to the word &#8220;and Adam <em>knew<\/em> Eve and she conceived and brought forth a son&#8221;. There are two principles of truth centered on the phrase and we know. One is <em>if fixed in the heart of the believer it will be tested<\/em>. The second is <em>I don&#8217;t have to understand it to believe it<\/em>. God sees not an unfinished life, but all things as done. Let us not turn our eyes on the\u00a0happenings of life,but the God of the happenings.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us begin today to muse from Romans 8:28-30, a section I&#8217;m calling happy endings. Our lives or liter with many endings. Every child of God will have the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-musings-from-the-motel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6462,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions\/6462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}