{"id":119,"date":"2018-03-29T01:31:07","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T05:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dissonanceshiftmusic.wordpress.com\/?p=119"},"modified":"2024-03-23T23:03:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T03:03:16","slug":"image-of-the-invisible-thrice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajcho.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/29\/image-of-the-invisible-thrice\/","title":{"rendered":"Image of the Invisible &#8211; Thrice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ajcho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Vheissu.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"object-fit:cover;width:400px;height:400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/a.tumblr.com\/tumblr_librg3f5Oe1qhua37o1.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n<blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"text Col-1-15\"><sup class=\"versenum\">15&nbsp;<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"text Col-1-15\">He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.<\/span><span id=\"en-ESV-29465\" class=\"text Col-1-16\"><sup class=\"versenum\">16&nbsp;<\/sup><\/span><span id=\"en-ESV-29465\" class=\"text Col-1-16\">For by<\/span><span id=\"en-ESV-29465\" class=\"text Col-1-16\"><span style=\"font-size:xx-small;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span id=\"en-ESV-29465\" class=\"text Col-1-16\">him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities\u2014all things were created through him and for him.<\/span><span id=\"en-ESV-29466\" class=\"text Col-1-17\"><sup class=\"versenum\">17&nbsp;<\/sup><\/span><span id=\"en-ESV-29466\" class=\"text Col-1-17\">And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.<\/span><span id=\"en-ESV-29467\" class=\"text Col-1-18\"><sup class=\"versenum\">18&nbsp;<\/sup><\/span><span id=\"en-ESV-29467\" class=\"text Col-1-18\">And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.<\/span><span id=\"en-ESV-29468\" class=\"text Col-1-19\"><sup class=\"versenum\">19&nbsp;<\/sup><\/span><span id=\"en-ESV-29468\" class=\"text Col-1-19\">For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell,<\/span><span id=\"en-ESV-29469\" class=\"text Col-1-20\"><sup class=\"versenum\">20&nbsp;<\/sup><\/span><span id=\"en-ESV-29469\" class=\"text Col-1-20\">and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.&nbsp;<\/span><span id=\"en-ESV-29470\" class=\"text Col-1-21\"><sup class=\"versenum\">21&nbsp;<\/sup><\/span><span id=\"en-ESV-29470\" class=\"text Col-1-21\">And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds,<\/span><span id=\"en-ESV-29471\" class=\"text Col-1-22\"><sup class=\"versenum\">22&nbsp;<\/sup><\/span><span id=\"en-ESV-29471\" class=\"text Col-1-22\">he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him,<\/span><span id=\"en-ESV-29472\" class=\"text Col-1-23\"><sup class=\"versenum\">23&nbsp;<\/sup><\/span><span id=\"en-ESV-29472\" class=\"text Col-1-23\">if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation<\/span><span id=\"en-ESV-29472\" class=\"text Col-1-23\"><span style=\"font-size:xx-small;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span id=\"en-ESV-29472\" class=\"text Col-1-23\">under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Thoughts as I was doing my QT today.<\/p>\n<p>I was made in the likeness of God. &nbsp;That likeness should be a type of mirror&#8230; and as I know, I should be a reflection of Christ&#8230; and Christ is the image of the invisible God. &nbsp;What was unknown, is now known through the image of Christ and that I should live my life striving to follow in His steps. &nbsp;What do I need to bare to follow after Him, when He bore it all already on the cross? &nbsp;I was broken and fallen, but through His steadfast and never-ending love and sacrifice, I was already loved, known, and reconciled. &nbsp;Through that love, I need to surrender and follow.<\/p>\n<p>I am the image of the invisible.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>15&nbsp;He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.16&nbsp;For by&nbsp;him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities\u2014all things were created through him and for him.17&nbsp;And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.18&nbsp;And he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-rock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajcho.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajcho.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajcho.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajcho.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajcho.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ajcho.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":837,"href":"https:\/\/ajcho.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajcho.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajcho.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajcho.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajcho.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}