{"id":1870,"date":"2010-03-31T00:44:27","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T06:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=1870"},"modified":"2010-03-22T11:48:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T17:48:12","slug":"words-from-the-cross-today-thou-shalt-be-with-me-in-paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=1870","title":{"rendered":"WORDS FROM THE CROSS: &#8220;&#8230;Today thou shalt be with me in paradise.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cAnd Jesus saith unto him, Verily I say unto thee, today shalt thou be with me in paradise\u201d (Luke 23:43).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Though Christ\u2019s mission on earth was completed on the cross,\u00a0 His main objective on earth was \u201cto seek and save that which was lost\u201d (Luke 19:10).\u00a0 Even while His life\u2019s blood flowed from Calvary, He saved one who came to Him in faith.\u00a0 The thief beside Him knew he, not Christ, deserved to die.\u00a0 It might not have been the best of circumstances, but Christ was ready to save and extend the promise of paradise to a repentant thief.\u00a0 Christ offers that same promise to all who will come to Him in faith.<\/p>\n<p>Sue Winchester<br \/>\nMissouri<\/p>\n<p><strong>PRAY TOGETHER: <\/strong>Workers in Creative Access areas need extra wisdom. Pray they will be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAnd Jesus saith unto him, Verily I say unto thee, today shalt thou be with me in paradise\u201d (Luke 23:43). Though Christ\u2019s mission on earth was completed on the cross,\u00a0 His main objective on earth was \u201cto seek and save &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=1870\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-devotional"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1871,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870\/revisions\/1871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}