{"id":807,"date":"2007-10-30T11:23:35","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T11:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jwalking\/2007\/10\/the-one-true-gift.html"},"modified":"2007-10-30T11:23:35","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T11:23:35","slug":"the-one-true-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jwalking\/2007\/10\/the-one-true-gift.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;the one true gift&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From my friends at Providence Ministries&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/providenceinhaiti.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/one-true-gift.html\">read on here.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DSC_0246.JPG.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/119\/import\/DSC_0246.JPG.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"258\" \/><br \/>\nIt doesn&#8217;t look like it on Good Friday, but when Easter finally arrives it will be known that every single loving word and gesture done toward &#8220;the least of these&#8221; was done to Christ himself and made an eternal difference.<br \/>\nEaster IS coming.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another thought on this from Greg Boyd:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If we didn&#8217;t have confidence Easter was coming, we&#8217;d be locked in a Good Friday world. The darkness that fell on the world during Christ&#8217;s crucifixion would be a permanent state of affairs. Every loss would be a final loss, with no recovery. Injustice, pain, death and meaninglessness would have the final world. The highest aspirations of the human heart would amount to nothing more than a sick joke, serving no point in the total scheme of things other than to torment us.<br \/>\nThank God Jesus rose from the dead!<br \/>\nEverything shall be redeemed!!<br \/>\nAnd every single loving word and gesture inches us forward to this final victory.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From my friends at Providence Ministries&#8230; read on here. It doesn&#8217;t look like it on Good Friday, but when Easter finally arrives it will be known that every single loving word and gesture done toward &#8220;the least of these&#8221; was done to Christ himself and made an eternal difference. Easter IS coming. 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