{"id":228,"date":"2021-11-06T12:23:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T12:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ronhampton.flywheelsites.com\/?p=228"},"modified":"2021-11-06T12:29:17","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T12:29:17","slug":"the-little-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tohimtheglory.com\/?p=228","title":{"rendered":"The Little Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The beggar child approached Him slowly,<br \/>\nWondering whether she might see<br \/>\nHow this man who spoke so boldly<br \/>\nCould bring about the prophecy.<\/p>\n<p>It had been said, it had been written,<br \/>\nThat a king would soon appear<br \/>\nWith the power to bring mercy,<br \/>\nReleasing all man-kind from fear.<\/p>\n<p>Now more children were brought before Him,<br \/>\nSo she slipped among them too,<br \/>\nBut some men there spoke so harshly<br \/>\nPlainly stating, \u201cno, not you!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the Lord spoke oh so softly,<br \/>\n\u201cLet the little children come to me,\u201d<br \/>\nDo not hinder, for the Kingdom<br \/>\nThat I bring, belongs to these.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So the child again drew near Him<br \/>\nFighting back a simple tear,<br \/>\nThen he turned and motioned to her,<br \/>\nSpeaking softly, \u201cPlease come here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now the tears flowed oh so freely<br \/>\nAs He held her to His breast,<br \/>\nHe simply said, \u201cI love you, child,<br \/>\nFrom this day forward you are blessed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; color: #e6b500;\"><em>ron hampton, September 2000 &#8211; SDG<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The beggar child approached Him slowly,<br \/>\nWondering whether she might see<br \/>\nHow this man who spoke so boldly<br \/>\nCould bring about the prophecy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tohimtheglory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tohimtheglory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tohimtheglory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tohimtheglory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tohimtheglory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tohimtheglory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"https:\/\/tohimtheglory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tohimtheglory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tohimtheglory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tohimtheglory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tohimtheglory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}