{"id":316,"date":"2005-08-04T20:36:43","date_gmt":"2005-08-04T20:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccgi.geraldyuen.plus.com\/?p=316"},"modified":"2005-08-04T20:36:43","modified_gmt":"2005-08-04T20:36:43","slug":"as-far-as-the-east-is-from-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=316","title":{"rendered":"As far as the east is from the west"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love.<br \/>\nHe will not always accuse, nor will he harbour his anger for ever;<br \/>\nhe does not treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according to our iniquities.<br \/>\nFor as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him;<br \/>\nas far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.<br \/>\nAs a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him;<br \/>\nfor he knows how we are formed, he remembers that we are dust.<br \/>\nAs for man, his days are like grass, he flourishes like a flower of the field;<br \/>\nthe wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more.<br \/>\nBut from everlasting to everlasting the LORD\u2019s love is with those who fear him, and his righteousness with their children\u2019s children\u2014<br \/>\nwith those who keep his covenant and remember to obey his precepts.<\/p>\n<p><cite>Psalm 103:8-18<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love. He will not always accuse, nor will he harbour his anger for ever; he does not treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according to our iniquities. For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=316\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}