{"id":38429,"date":"2025-12-07T22:00:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T05:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=38429"},"modified":"2025-12-03T00:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T07:26:11","slug":"251208-grip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/251208-grip\/","title":{"rendered":"His Grip Is Sure"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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My dad, a man of few words, told my brother and me, \u201cBoys, Christmas is about Jesus.\u201d In one of those bedtime, book-time moments, somewhere between the fairy tales and the monkey with the lunch pail, I thought about what Dad had said. I began asking the Christmas questions, and I\u2019ve been asking them ever since.<\/p>\n

God knows what it\u2019s like to be a human. When we talk to him about deadlines or tough times, he understands. He\u2019s been there. He\u2019s been\u00a0here<\/em>. Because of Bethlehem, we have a friend in Jesus. Christmas begins what Easter celebrates. The child in the cradle became the King on the cross. And he doesn\u2019t tell us, \u201cClean up before you come in.\u201d He offers, \u201cCome in and I\u2019ll clean you up.\u201d It\u2019s not our grip on him that matters, but his grip on us. And his grip is sure.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Read more\u00a0When God Whispers Your Name<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My dad, a man of few words, told my brother and me, \u201cBoys, Christmas is about Jesus.\u201d In one of those bedtime, book-time moments, somewhere between the fairy tales and the monkey with the lunch pail, I thought about what Dad had said. I began asking the Christmas questions, and I\u2019ve been asking them ever since.<\/p>\n

God knows what it\u2019s like to be a human. When we talk to him about deadlines or tough times, he understands. He\u2019s been there. He\u2019s been here. Because of Bethlehem, we have a friend in Jesus. Christmas begins what Easter celebrates. The child in the cradle became the King on the cross. And he doesn\u2019t tell us, \u201cClean up before you come in.\u201d He offers, \u201cCome in and I\u2019ll clean you up.\u201d It\u2019s not our grip on him that matters, but his grip on us. And his grip is sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38431,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38429"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38432,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38429\/revisions\/38432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}