{"id":38634,"date":"2025-12-23T22:00:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T05:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=38634"},"modified":"2025-12-23T14:14:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T21:14:47","slug":"251224-such","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/251224-such\/","title":{"rendered":"Such A Thing To Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">by Max Lucado<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-38637 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/251224_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/251224_1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/251224_1-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The God of the universe was born into the poverty of a peasant and spent his first night in the cows\u2019 feed trough. He left the glory of heaven and moved into our neighborhood. Who could have imagined he would do such a thing?<\/p>\n<p>What a world he left. Our classiest mansion would be a tree trunk to him. God became a one-celled embryo and entered the womb of Mary. He became like us. Just look at the places he was willing to go: feed troughs, carpentry shops, badlands, and cemeteries.\u00a0The places he went to reach us show how far he will go to touch us.\u00a0He loves to be with the ones he loves.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38636\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1-unnamed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read more\u00a0<a title=\"In the Manger\" href=\"https:\/\/maxlucado.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=bed511e434184985961d50fcb&amp;id=e7b56c1b91&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%3De7b56c1b91%26e%3D0716428f80&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1766610024629000&amp;usg=AOvVaw20QvZ3Mjp1ZHW_EpiFzSq0\"><em>In the Manger<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The God of the universe was born into the poverty of a peasant and spent his first night in the cows\u2019 feed trough. He left the glory of heaven and moved into our neighborhood. Who could have imagined he would do such a thing?<\/p>\n<p>What a world he left. Our classiest mansion would be a tree trunk to him. God became a one-celled embryo and entered the womb of Mary. He became like us. Just look at the places he was willing to go: feed troughs, carpentry shops, badlands, and cemeteries. The places he went to reach us show how far he will go to touch us. He loves to be with the ones he loves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38637,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38634","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\/38634","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=38634"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38638,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38634\/revisions\/38638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}