{"id":423,"date":"2015-04-21T18:02:38","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T18:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=423"},"modified":"2015-04-23T01:31:28","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T01:31:28","slug":"thinking-out-loud-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=423","title":{"rendered":"Thinking Out Loud #4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The image of Christ that matters is not in a mud puddle, on a weather beaten wall, in the clouds of the sky, or on an ancient burial cloth. \u00a0For the believer the image of Christ should be visible each time we look in the mirror. \u00a0When you and I look in the mirror, what is it that we see?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son,&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8221; Romans 8:29.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The song writer Thomas O. Chisholm expressed it well in his hymn; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;O to be like thee! \u00a0O to be like thee, \u00a0Blessed Redeemer, pure as Thou art! \u00a0Come in Thy sweetness, come in Thy fullness, Stamp thine own image deep on my heart.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The image of Christ that matters is not in a mud puddle, on a weather beaten wall, in the clouds of the sky, or on an ancient burial cloth. \u00a0For the believer the image of Christ should be visible each time we look in the mirror. \u00a0When you and I look in the mirror, what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=423\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thinking Out Loud #4<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":446,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions\/446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}