{"id":153,"date":"2007-10-19T20:54:19","date_gmt":"2007-10-20T00:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2007\/10\/19\/doing-the-will-of-the-father\/"},"modified":"2007-10-19T20:54:19","modified_gmt":"2007-10-20T00:54:19","slug":"doing-the-will-of-the-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=153","title":{"rendered":"Doing the will of the Father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Jesus seems to me to say:&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>If I held my face to my testimony only till danger came close, and then prayed for the Father to deliver me with twelve legions of angels, that would be to say that the Father would do anything for his children until it began to hurt him.\u00c2\u00a0 I bear witness that my father is such as I.\u00c2\u00a0 In the face of death I assert it, and dare death to disprove it.\u00c2\u00a0 Kill me, do what you will and can against me, my father is true, and I am true in saying that he is true.\u00c2\u00a0 Danger or hurt cannot turn me aside from this my witness.\u00c2\u00a0 Death can only kill my body but cannot make me its captive.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Father, thy will be done!\u00c2\u00a0 The pain will pass.\u00c2\u00a0 It will be but for a time!\u00c2\u00a0 Gladly will I suffer that men may know that I live, and that thou art my life.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;<\/em> George MacDonald, <em>Your Life in Christ:\u00c2\u00a0 The Nature of God and His Work in Human Hearts,<\/em> p. 46-47<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Jesus seems to me to say:&#8230; If I held my face to my testimony only till danger came close, and then prayed for the Father to deliver me with twelve legions of angels, that would be to say that the Father would do anything for his children until it began to hurt him.\u00c2\u00a0 I bear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-trials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}