{"id":38496,"date":"2025-12-15T22:00:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T05:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=38496"},"modified":"2025-12-16T20:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T03:55:07","slug":"251216-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/251216-together\/","title":{"rendered":"He Holds It All Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: right;\">by Max Lucado<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-38498 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/251216_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/251216_1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/251216_1-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Christmas is a season of interruptions. Some we enjoy, some we don\u2019t. You may be facing an interruption during this season of life. What you wanted and what you received do not match, and now you\u2019re troubled and anxious. Everything inside you and every voice around you says, \u201cGet out. Get angry.\u201d But don\u2019t listen to those voices. You cannot face a crisis if you don\u2019t face God first.<\/p>\n<p>Colossians 1:16-17 (MSG) says, \u201c<strong>For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible, rank after rank after rank of angels\u2014<em>everything\u00a0<\/em>got started in him and finds its purpose in him. He was there before any of it came into existence and holds it all together right up to this moment<\/strong>.\u201d\u00a0God holds it all together, and he will hold it together for you.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"CToWUd\" src=\"https:\/\/ci3.googleusercontent.com\/meips\/ADKq_Nacdpqkovykp3qmKY48--a1853N9-3mNYosk0oal5UdQh_LKwpx-f5cIslljmbQfSYRYw9LlQkVFYT-RW3ieJ1p7a18zKqPCmIqd63Vs_Gp=s0-d-e1-ft#https:\/\/maxlucado.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bob-1-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"Because of Bethlehem\" width=\"100\" height=\"152.284263959\" border=\"0\" data-bit=\"iit\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read more\u00a0<a title=\"Because of Bethlehem\" href=\"https:\/\/maxlucado.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=bed511e434184985961d50fcb&amp;id=7190eac6d9&amp;e=0716428f80\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/maxlucado.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Dbed511e434184985961d50fcb%26id%3D7190eac6d9%26e%3D0716428f80&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1764831712501000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0X2mSZTzNlEyEqAQWc5pdB\"><em>Because of Bethlehem<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas is a season of interruptions. Some we enjoy, some we don\u2019t. You may be facing an interruption during this season of life. What you wanted and what you received do not match, and now you\u2019re troubled and anxious. Everything inside you and every voice around you says, \u201cGet out. Get angry.\u201d But don\u2019t listen to those voices. You cannot face a crisis if you don\u2019t face God first.<\/p>\n<p>Colossians 1:16-17 (MSG) says, \u201cFor everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible, rank after rank after rank of angels\u2014everything got started in him and finds its purpose in him. He was there before any of it came into existence and holds it all together right up to this moment.\u201d God holds it all together, and he will hold it together for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38498,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38496","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\/38496","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=38496"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38499,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38496\/revisions\/38499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}