{"id":3048,"date":"2013-02-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/as-a-deer-pants-for-flowing-streams-so-pants-my-soul-for-you-o-god-my-soul-thirsts-for-god-for-the-living-god-psalm-421-2-esv\/"},"modified":"2013-02-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T00:00:00","slug":"as-a-deer-pants-for-flowing-streams-so-pants-my-soul-for-you-o-god-my-soul-thirsts-for-god-for-the-living-god-psalm-421-2-esv","status":"publish","type":"oyb","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/as-a-deer-pants-for-flowing-streams-so-pants-my-soul-for-you-o-god-my-soul-thirsts-for-god-for-the-living-god-psalm-421-2-esv","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAs a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God&#8221; (Psalm 42:1-2 ESV)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David described the longing of his soul for God. The brilliant French physicist and philosopher, Pascal, proposed that such a longing was present in every human heart, saying, \u201cThere is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus&#8221; (Blaise Pascal, Pensees). People try to fill this longing with other things, which explains the misery of many. But the human soul can only find its fullest satisfaction in Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David described the longing of his soul for God. The brilliant French physicist and philosopher, Pascal, proposed that such a longing was present in every human heart, saying, \u201cThere is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus&#8221; (Blaise Pascal, Pensees). People try to fill this longing with other things, which explains the misery of many. But the human soul can only find its fullest satisfaction in Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"scripture-book":[1286],"scripture-chapter":[1375],"oyb_day":[1583],"location":[],"class_list":["post-3048","oyb","type-oyb","status-publish","hentry","scripture-book-psalms","scripture-chapter-1375","oyb_day-february-26"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb\/3048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/oyb"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3048"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-book?post=3048"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-chapter?post=3048"},{"taxonomy":"oyb_day","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb_day?post=3048"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=3048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}