{"id":2164,"date":"2021-12-25T23:01:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-25T23:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwbministries.com\/?p=2164"},"modified":"2021-12-25T23:01:32","modified_gmt":"2021-12-25T23:01:32","slug":"the-child-by-emil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bwbministries.com\/?p=2164","title":{"rendered":"The Child by Emil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The birth of a baby so soft and gentle<br>The glow in the eyes of the parents<br>Small little fingers and stubby little toes<br>Eyes that strained to find something on which to focus<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pink wrinkly skin, faint traces of hair<br>This baby, this Child, was none to compare<br>A lamb in human skin, a warrior within<br>And a Holy Spirit which none could compare<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A child sent on a mission, a child greatly feared<br>Was he a Conqueror? Was He a Destroyer? Was He a Dove?<br>This was truly God sent in a small little package<br>Just waiting for the chance to grow up<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A king born in a stable? A Savior in a crib?<br>So weak and so helpless, so tiny and frail<br>He had a heart of compassion at such an early age<br>He yearned for a world now thrown into a rage<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you would have looked deep into His eyes<br>I wonder what you would have seen<br>Maybe a tear for the souls<br>He came to save<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He couldn\u2019t wait to be about the Father\u2019s business<br>Not wielding a hammer, a nail, and a log,<br>Which all too soon would secure him to His fate<br>He was nailed to a tree<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This tiny baby<br>Just wait till He grows older, just you wait and see<br>That this little baby<br>Would save you and save me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The birth of a baby so soft and gentleThe glow in the eyes of the parentsSmall little fingers and stubby little toesEyes that strained to find something on which to focus Pink wrinkly skin, faint traces of hairThis baby, this Child, was none to compareA lamb in human skin, a warrior withinAnd a Holy Spirit &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bwbministries.com\/?p=2164\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Child by Emil<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bwbministries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bwbministries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bwbministries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bwbministries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bwbministries.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bwbministries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2165,"href":"http:\/\/www.bwbministries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164\/revisions\/2165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bwbministries.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bwbministries.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bwbministries.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}