{"id":906,"date":"2014-04-18T15:59:31","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T20:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.messy-spirituality.com\/wordpress\/?p=906"},"modified":"2014-04-18T16:00:37","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T21:00:37","slug":"gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.messy-spirituality.com\/wordpress\/2014\/04\/18\/gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Gone!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He was taken from us, why did this happen!?<\/p>\n<p>God, Jesus said He was Your Son. \u00a0If that were so, then why did You let Him die? \u00a0Why God, why have you forsaken Your Son? \u00a0If Him, then what about us?<\/p>\n<p>Jesus, King of the Jews, Son of man, Son of the living God, has been nailed to a tree. \u00a0He has been beaten. \u00a0He has been CRUCIFIED! \u00a0Why God, Why have you forsaken Your Son? \u00a0Why did you let them do it?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acelebrationofwomen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/good_friday_wallpaper1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acelebrationofwomen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/good_friday_wallpaper1.jpg?resize=700%2C438\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"438\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jesus is dead&#8230;..dead upon a cross. \u00a0Crucified between two criminals and buried in a borrowed grave. \u00a0Is there hope? \u00a0Hope in what? \u00a0Why did all this have to happen?<\/p>\n<p>We do have died. \u00a0We have died in the death of Jesus, Son of God. \u00a0Our death in Jesus, is that our hope? \u00a0Please, O God of compassion, show us that there is hope in death!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He was taken from us, why did this happen!? God, Jesus said He was Your Son. \u00a0If that were so, then why did You let Him die? \u00a0Why God, why have you forsaken Your Son? \u00a0If Him, then what about us? Jesus, King of the Jews, Son of man, Son of the living God, has &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.messy-spirituality.com\/wordpress\/2014\/04\/18\/gone\/\">[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":[11,21,41,67,68,10,36,31],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-906","6":"format-standard","7":"category-death","8":"category-faith","9":"category-fear","10":"category-good-friday","11":"category-hope","12":"category-jesus","13":"category-promise","14":"category-theology-of-the-cross"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2m6h5-gone","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1256,"url":"https:\/\/www.messy-spirituality.com\/wordpress\/2015\/03\/09\/rejoice-in-gods-foolishness\/","url_meta":{"origin":906,"position":0},"title":"Rejoice in God&#8217;s Foolishness","author":"Douglas Dill","date":"March 9, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/22SQdRDBpPY Audio Version 1 Corinthians 1:18\u201325 John 2:13\u201322 At the beginning of Lent, we were reminded of our mortality, with the application of the ashes, while hearing the words, from dust you came and to dust you shall return. 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