{"id":2238,"date":"2025-05-21T22:08:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T02:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/?p=2238"},"modified":"2025-05-21T22:08:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T02:08:37","slug":"the-love-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/?p=2238","title":{"rendered":"The Love of God"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>THE LOVE OF GOD<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I can do nothing without my God<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The one who looks upon my soul<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Knows me like none other<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Yet my love never has he stole<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>For you see my God is not a thief<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>He is a giver, protector, and provider<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Relentlessly seeing my love<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>He is waiting for me above<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Never does he fail to let me know<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Just how much he loves me so<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Just as I start to walk away<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I feel his love urging me to stay<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Oh the passion my God shows<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Every day with every breath I breathe<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>When all others walk away<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I know my God is still here with me<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>He promises never to leave me though<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>So often from his side I have strayed<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How can I not love this God of love<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Why he loves me I cannot say<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Author, by the grace of God,   Sharon Rose Lawless   May 21, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE LOVE OF GOD I can do nothing without my God The one who looks upon my soul Knows me like none other Yet my love never has he stole For you see my God is not a thief He is a giver, protector, and provider Relentlessly seeing my love He is waiting for me &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/?p=2238\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Love of God&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2239,"href":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions\/2239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}