{"id":2144,"date":"2019-01-07T15:17:28","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T21:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.messy-spirituality.com\/wordpress\/?p=2144"},"modified":"2019-01-08T07:38:58","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T13:38:58","slug":"arise-shine-for-your-light-has-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.messy-spirituality.com\/wordpress\/2019\/01\/07\/arise-shine-for-your-light-has-come\/","title":{"rendered":"Arise, Shine: for your light has come."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">January 6, 2019<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Isaiah 60:1\u20136<br>Ephesians 3:1\u201312<br>Matthew 2:1\u201312<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sometimes people truly miss the light altogether.  Maybe the light is so bright in their darkness, they choose to run or turn away.  They sit in darkness, and dwell.  The darkness is what they have known and they refuse to see the light.  Sometimes, they dwell so long that they attempt to blame others, for where they are, and fail to realize that all they do is pull the other in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is hope in the passage from Isaiah.  Hope came into this world, in a manger.  Hope escaped danger from King Herod.  Hope gave of Himself.  Hope was revealed in the resurrection.  Hope is here and now and will come again in the clouds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Arise, Shine: for you light has come.  What a great verse for the year!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aG4z879mZ3M?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 6, 2019 Isaiah 60:1\u20136Ephesians 3:1\u201312Matthew 2:1\u201312 Sometimes people truly miss the light altogether. Maybe the light is so bright in their darkness, they choose to run or turn away. They sit in darkness, and dwell. The darkness is what they have known and they refuse to see the light. Sometimes, they dwell so long &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.messy-spirituality.com\/wordpress\/2019\/01\/07\/arise-shine-for-your-light-has-come\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[156,87,15,28,21,68,10,70,79,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-2144","6":"format-standard","7":"category-children","8":"category-christ","9":"category-christian-love","10":"category-eternal-life","11":"category-faith","12":"category-hope","13":"category-jesus","14":"category-life","15":"category-light","16":"category-love"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2m6h5-yA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":667,"url":"https:\/\/www.messy-spirituality.com\/wordpress\/2014\/01\/05\/vision-being-the-light-to-the-nations\/","url_meta":{"origin":2144,"position":0},"title":"Vision, Being the Light to the Nations","author":"Douglas Dill","date":"January 5, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Video Link Audio Link Isaiah 60:1\u20136 Ephesians 3:1\u201312 Matthew 2:1\u201312 Today is the Epiphany of the Lord. 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