{"id":4055,"date":"2016-09-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/we-have-thought-on-your-steadfast-love-o-god-in-the-midst-of-your-temple-psalm-489-esv\/"},"modified":"2016-09-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-04T00:00:00","slug":"we-have-thought-on-your-steadfast-love-o-god-in-the-midst-of-your-temple-psalm-489-esv","status":"publish","type":"oyb","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/we-have-thought-on-your-steadfast-love-o-god-in-the-midst-of-your-temple-psalm-489-esv","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We have thought on your steadfast love, O God, in the midst of your temple.\u201d (Psalm 48:9 ESV)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking on God\u2019s \u201csteadfast love\u201d is an appropriate act of worship. What kind of love is this? The Hebrew word is \u201cchesed,\u201d which may be translated \u201clovingkindness\u201d or \u201ccovenantal love.\u201d In the Greek New Testament, the word \u201cagape\u201d would be its equivalent. This kind of unconditional, unmerited, and unchanging love is worthy of our meditation. The psalmist spoke of his meditation of it in worship, yet it\u2019s supreme revelation isn\u2019t found until the cross of Christ. It is in Jesus that we see God\u2019s steadfast love made manifest. As John said, \u201cThis is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins\u201d (1 John 4:10). Beloved, think on this steadfast love of God revealed in Jesus Christ!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking on God\u2019s \u201csteadfast love\u201d is an appropriate act of worship. What kind of love is this? The Hebrew word is \u201cchesed,\u201d which may be translated \u201clovingkindness\u201d or \u201ccovenantal love.\u201d In the Greek New Testament, the word \u201cagape\u201d would be its equivalent. This kind of unconditional, unmerited, and unchanging love is worthy of our meditation. The psalmist spoke of his meditation of it in worship, yet it\u2019s supreme revelation isn\u2019t found until the cross of Christ. It is in Jesus that we see God\u2019s steadfast love made manifest. As John said, \u201cThis is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins\u201d (1 John 4:10). Beloved, think on this steadfast love of God revealed in Jesus Christ!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"scripture-book":[1286],"scripture-chapter":[1381],"oyb_day":[1774],"location":[],"class_list":["post-4055","oyb","type-oyb","status-publish","hentry","scripture-book-psalms","scripture-chapter-1381","oyb_day-september-4"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb\/4055","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=4055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4055"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-book?post=4055"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-chapter?post=4055"},{"taxonomy":"oyb_day","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb_day?post=4055"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=4055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}