{"id":1300,"date":"2009-03-29T10:26:44","date_gmt":"2009-03-29T10:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=298"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:29:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:29:41","slug":"the-purpose-of-happy-endings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1300","title":{"rendered":"The Purpose Of Happy Endings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Let us muse again today from Romans 8:28-29, a section I call happy endings. Our text tells us God&#8217;s <em>purpose<\/em> involves the working together of all things. The phrase <em>working together<\/em> means the putting of\u00a0a number of sorted thing together to make one. We find in verse 28 it is according to His <em>purpose<\/em>. The word purpose means before His face. In verse 29 we are told it is a <em>predestinated purpose<\/em>. The word predestinate means to plan out ahead of time. His purpose verse 28 says is only for those who love Him and are called by Him. Life is not a series of accidents but a well laid out plan. Our lord has no plan<em> &#8220;B&#8221;<\/em> only plan <em>&#8220;A&#8221;.<\/em> It will have a happy ending.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Romans 8:28-29, a section I call happy endings. Our text tells us God&#8217;s purpose involves the working together of all things. The phrase working [&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-1300","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\/1300","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=1300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6461,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions\/6461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}