{"id":1344,"date":"2014-01-06T19:58:59","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T01:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gospelriver.com\/sharingchrist\/?p=1344"},"modified":"2014-01-06T19:58:59","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T01:58:59","slug":"104-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gospelriver.com\/sharingchrist\/104-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"104. &#8220;The world&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Gal 2:20; Gal. 6:14<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The world that crucified my Lord, makes overtures to me,<br \/>\nAnd offers pleasures and reward, if I would faithless be.<br \/>\nBut when in Jesus&#8217; death I died, the world to me was crucified.<\/p>\n<p>The world, that crowned my Lord with thornes, would crown me with success,<br \/>\nIf I would walk as one who scorns, the crown of righteousness,<br \/>\nBut I will never cast away, the crown I hope for &#8220;in that day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The world, that set my Lord at naught, would bid me make a name,<br \/>\nBy selling what His life-blood bought, for wealth, and ease, and fame.<br \/>\nBut I, of these desire no part; my name is written on His heart.<\/p>\n<p>The world that pierced His hands and feet, and smote my Saviour&#8217;s side,<br \/>\nWould tempt me with some vain conceit, to pander to my pride:<br \/>\nBut all the earth&#8217;s vanities are dross, to those who glory in the cross.<\/p>\n<address><em>&#8211; Author unknown; written over 100 years ago (if you know who wrote it, please let me know)<\/em><\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gal 2:20; Gal. 6:14 The world that crucified my Lord, makes overtures to me, And offers pleasures and reward, if I would faithless be. But when in Jesus&#8217; death I died, the world to me was crucified. The world, that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-songpoem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gospelriver.com\/sharingchrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gospelriver.com\/sharingchrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gospelriver.com\/sharingchrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gospelriver.com\/sharingchrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gospelriver.com\/sharingchrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1344"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gospelriver.com\/sharingchrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1347,"href":"https:\/\/gospelriver.com\/sharingchrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions\/1347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gospelriver.com\/sharingchrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gospelriver.com\/sharingchrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gospelriver.com\/sharingchrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}