{"id":4302,"date":"2024-12-25T07:26:20","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T12:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/js1cd06kre.onrocket.site\/?p=4302"},"modified":"2024-12-25T07:27:53","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T12:27:53","slug":"the-miracle-of-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/25\/the-miracle-of-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"The Miracle of Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/PhilippiansTwo2024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4303\" width=\"460\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/PhilippiansTwo2024.png 960w, https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/PhilippiansTwo2024-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/PhilippiansTwo2024-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/PhilippiansTwo2024-624x351.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>To listen to today&#8217;s reflection as a podcast,&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/glennsreflections.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=c4927dfbefb9749e5fef1581d&amp;id=86361e577c&amp;e=5cd2a880e9\">click here<\/a><br><br>\u201cThink of yourselves the way Christ Jesus thought of himself.<br><br>\u201cHe had equal status with God but didn\u2019t think so much of himself that he had to cling to the advantages of that status no matter what. Not at all. When the time came, he set aside the privileges of deity and took on the status of a slave, became&nbsp;<em>human<\/em>!<br><br>\u201cHaving become human, he stayed human. It was an incredibly humbling process. He didn\u2019t claim special privileges. Instead, he lived a selfless, obedient life and then died a selfless, obedient death\u2014and the worst kind of death at that\u2014a crucifixion.<br><br>\u201cBecause of that obedience, God lifted him high and honored him far beyond anyone or anything, ever, so that all created beings in heaven and on earth\u2014even those long ago dead and buried\u2014will bow in worship before this Jesus Christ, and call out in praise that he is the Master of all, to the glorious honor of God the Father.\u201d<br><br><strong>Philippians 2:5-11 (<\/strong><em><strong>The Message<\/strong><\/em><strong>)<\/strong><br><br><em>May God grant you a joyful and peace-filled Christmas Day!<\/em><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To listen to today&#8217;s reflection as a podcast,&nbsp;click here \u201cThink of yourselves the way Christ Jesus thought of himself. \u201cHe had equal status with God but didn\u2019t think so much of himself that he had to cling to the advantages of that status no matter what. Not at all. When the time came, he set aside the privileges of deity&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/25\/the-miracle-of-christmas\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[119,846],"class_list":["post-4302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-christmas","tag-philippians-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4302"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4305,"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4302\/revisions\/4305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}