{"id":3995,"date":"2018-10-11T14:57:40","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T14:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davesali.wordpress.com\/2018\/10\/11\/scandalous-love\/"},"modified":"2018-10-11T14:57:40","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T14:57:40","slug":"scandalous-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/11\/scandalous-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Scandalous love"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0;background-color:rgb(204,204,204);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none;text-align:left;\">The LORD hath appeared of old unto me,<span> <\/span><\/span><i class=\"add\" style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;\">saying<\/i><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0;background-color:rgb(204,204,204);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none;text-align:left;\">, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.<\/span> &#8211; Jeremiah 31:3<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>God&#8217;s love for you is scandalous.<\/p>\n<p>He loves you with no regard for other people&#8217;s opinions of you or even of your own opinions of you.<\/p>\n<p>Because you are in Christ, He doesn&#8217;t see the negative things, the mistakes and shortcomings that you&#8217;re focused on.<\/p>\n<p>He just loves you completely as you are. No buts, no &#8220;if onlys&#8221; and no disappointments.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the scandal.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, His love will transform you and change you.<\/p>\n<p>But you don&#8217;t change in order for Him to love you.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, you rest in His scandalous, no-strings-attached love for you&#8230;and that love transforms you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee. &#8211; Jeremiah 31:3 God&#8217;s love for you is scandalous. He loves you with no regard for other people&#8217;s opinions of you or even of your own opinions of you. Because &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/11\/scandalous-love\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Scandalous love&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}