{"id":16256,"date":"2025-04-29T00:45:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T22:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/?p=16256"},"modified":"2025-04-29T00:48:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T22:48:12","slug":"higher-this-is-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/2025\/04\/29\/higher-this-is-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher &#8211; this is why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"16257\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/2025\/04\/29\/higher-this-is-why\/de_huijberg_hedge\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/de_huijberg_hedge.jpg?fit=800%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"800,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.9&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;motorola edge 20&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1745598016&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;5.88&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.000714116&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"de_huijberg_hedge\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/de_huijberg_hedge.jpg?fit=800%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/de_huijberg_hedge.jpg?resize=800%2C600&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/de_huijberg_hedge.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/de_huijberg_hedge.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/de_huijberg_hedge.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nLet Christ himself be your example as to what your attitude should be. <\/p>\n<p>For he, who had always been God by nature, did not cling to his prerogatives as God\u2019s equal, but stripped himself of all privilege by consenting to be a slave by nature and being born as mortal man. <\/p>\n<p>And, having become man, he humbled himself by living a life of utter obedience, even to the extent of dying, and the death he died was the death of a common criminal. <\/p>\n<p><strong>That is why<\/strong> God has now lifted him so high, and has given him the name beyond all names, so that at the name of Jesus \u201cevery knee shall bow\u201d, whether in Heaven or earth or under the earth. <\/p>\n<p>And <strong>that is why<\/strong>, in the end, \u201cevery tongue shall confess\u201d that Jesus Christ\u201d is the Lord, to the glory of God the Father.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-right:20px;margin-top:20px;\" align=\"right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Philippians%202%3A5-11&#038;version=PHILLIPS\" target=\"_blank\">Philippians 2:5-11<\/a> &nbsp;(J.B. Phillips New Testament)<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h3>A prayer<\/h3>\n<p>Most wonderful God,<br \/>\nthe beauty we see in Jesus<br \/>\nis your beauty veiled in human flesh,<br \/>\nthe love we witness from Bethlehem to Golgotha<br \/>\nis your love contracted to a span.<br \/>\nIf Christ\u2019s life is so holy as to fill us with wonder,<br \/>\nhow much more would your unveiled beauty<br \/>\nleave us overwhelmed and trembling?<br \/>\nYou are more than the eye could bear,<br \/>\nmore than the mind can ever fathom.<\/p>\n<p>Yet you have so carefully made us<br \/>\nthat although we cannot fathom you,<br \/>\nwe can yet love you.<br \/>\nGratefully we bring our little lives to you,<br \/>\nasking that our worship may arise from love and be shaped by love,<br \/>\nand be directed towards that larger loving which is our soul\u2019s desire.<br \/>\nThrough Jesus Christ our Lord.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Amen!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n~ by <strong>Bruce Prewer<\/strong>, posted on his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bruceprewer.com\/DocA\/55SUN26.htm\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Let Christ himself be your example as to what your attitude should be. 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