{"id":3659,"date":"2013-04-11T13:16:02","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T13:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=3659"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:25:55","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:25:55","slug":"the-handiwork-of-our-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=3659","title":{"rendered":"The Handiwork Of Our God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u00a0us muse again today from Isaiah 40: 10-11\u00a0and the theme of <strong><em>Isaiah&#8217;s Christ<\/em><\/strong>. We are looking today at<strong><em> the strengthening Christ<\/em> <\/strong>and<strong><em> His handiwork<\/em><\/strong>. I see in our text <strong><em>the mastering handiwork of our God<\/em><\/strong>. In verse\u00a010 we find that He rules the world and all\u00a0the governments with a strong hand. He could certainly be seen as a dictator. In verse 11 we see Him with that same arm and hand pick up His little sheep, draw them\u00a0into His bosom, and hand feed them. He may be a dictator ruling over this world as a sovereign but to us who know Him He is a gracious benevolent dictator. He is mastering me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u00a0us muse again today from Isaiah 40: 10-11\u00a0and the theme of Isaiah&#8217;s Christ. We are looking today at the strengthening Christ and His handiwork. I see in our text the [&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-3659","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\/3659","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=3659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5442,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3659\/revisions\/5442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}