{"id":149,"date":"2015-07-17T12:44:07","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T12:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.csbcva.org\/?p=149"},"modified":"2015-07-17T12:44:07","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T12:44:07","slug":"quote-of-the-day-july-17-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.csbcva.org\/?p=149","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day &#8211; July 17, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Do you love the thought that you exist to make God look glorious? \u00a0Do you love the thought that all creation exists to display the glory of God? \u00a0Do you love the truth that all of history is designed by God to one day be a completed canvas that displays in the best way possible the greatness and beauty of God?&#8230;Do you love the truth that you personally exist to make God look like what He really is &#8211; glorious? \u00a0I ask again: \u00a0Do you love the fact that your salvation is meant to put the glory of God&#8217;s grace on display? \u00a0Do you love seeing and showing the glory of God? \u00a0This is why God created the universe. \u00a0This is why He ordained history. \u00a0This is why He sent His Son. \u00a0This is why you exist. \u00a0Forever to see and savor and show the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. \u00a0The question at the end of Romans 1-11 is; Do you embrace this calling as your treasure and your joy?&#8221; \u00a0-John Piper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Do you love the thought that you exist to make God look glorious? \u00a0Do you love the thought that all creation exists to display the glory of God? \u00a0Do you<span class=\"excerpt-ellipsis\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.csbcva.org\/?p=149\" itemprop=\"url\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csbcva.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csbcva.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csbcva.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csbcva.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csbcva.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.csbcva.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"https:\/\/www.csbcva.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csbcva.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csbcva.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csbcva.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}