{"id":174,"date":"2019-10-15T10:15:42","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T14:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.developingdisciple.ca\/?p=174"},"modified":"2019-10-15T10:15:48","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T14:15:48","slug":"when-hope-seems-lost-a-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.developingdisciple.ca\/?p=174","title":{"rendered":"When Hope Seems Lost (a poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>All hope seems lost, our Lord has died<br> Beaten, scorned then crucified<br> All hope seems lost, sky dark as night<br> The Creator killed by His design<br> <br><br> All hope seems lost, his body buried<br> Evil came, destroyed and did not tarry<br> All hope seems lost, the stone in place<br> Shock and grief upon our face<br> <br><br> O Death, you won, you made the crown<br> That dug so deeply into his brow<br> Your nails held firm, your spear drove deep<br> Our hope is lost and so we weep<br> <br><br> But then, the grave, it lost its treasure!<br> By God\u2019s design and His good pleasure<br> The price was paid declared in full!<br> The stain is gone now white as wool!<br> <br><br> The stone once so immovable and sure<br> Is rolled away there is a cure<br> Those broken, lost, and filled with shame<br> Now have a light in Jesus name!<br> <br><br> Behold, our Hope was never lost\u00a0<br> His love ensured He paid the cost<br> Our Hope secure, He is our rock<br> Our Great Shepherd and we his flock<br> <br><br> O Love, Divine, that came for me<br> When I, in darkness, was thine enemy<br> O Love, Divine, my Hope assured<br> You hold my hand so I endure<br> <br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All hope seems lost, our Lord has died Beaten, scorned then crucified All hope seems lost, sky dark as night The Creator killed by His design All hope seems lost, his body buried Evil came, destroyed and did not tarry &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.developingdisciple.ca\/?p=174\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Etmg-2O","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developingdisciple.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developingdisciple.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developingdisciple.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developingdisciple.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developingdisciple.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.developingdisciple.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176,"href":"http:\/\/www.developingdisciple.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developingdisciple.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developingdisciple.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developingdisciple.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}