{"id":1997,"date":"2013-12-03T16:43:27","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T16:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/merebreath\/?p=1997"},"modified":"2013-12-03T16:43:27","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T16:43:27","slug":"savoring-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/merebreath\/2013\/12\/03\/savoring-glory\/","title":{"rendered":"Savoring Glory"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><blockquote><p>Jesus is not lonely. He and the Father and the Spirit are profoundly satisfied in the fellowship of the Trinity. We, not he, are starving for something. And what Jesus wants for Christmas is for us to experience what we were really made for \u2014 seeing and savoring his glory.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>-John Piper in Good News of Great Joy<\/p>\n<div id=\"served-preview\">\n<p><a id=\"static_preview_img\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0983916470\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0983916470&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=merbre-20\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"static_img_preview\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/513a9gpuarL._SL110_.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus is not lonely. He and the Father and the Spirit are profoundly satisfied in the fellowship of the Trinity. We, not he, are starving for something. 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