{"id":10422,"date":"2018-09-23T18:27:12","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T18:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=10422"},"modified":"2018-09-23T18:27:12","modified_gmt":"2018-09-23T18:27:12","slug":"funeral-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/10422\/funeral-yesterday\/","title":{"rendered":"Funeral Yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I was doing yard work late in the day yesterday, and noticed several sheriffs\u2019 vehicles traveling in procession down hwy. 62 in front of the house. I stopped what I was doing and watched, and then saw bright red tractor trailer freight-haulers, all from the same company, lined up behind the sheriff&#8217;s vehicles. And then the same company&#8217;s dump trucks followed them, all the same color and all brand new, moving down the road in uniformity. It was apparent that it was a funeral procession, and the grand scale of it gave me a feeling of awe. Dozens if not a hundred or more 4-wheel drive trucks then followed, contractor&#8217;s trucks I believe, then the normal line of vehicles with blinking lights behind them; it seemed to go on forever. As I watched I realized this must have been the company owner that had passed, or his immediate family. And the thought of his \/ her loved ones grieving them right then, nearly took my breath. With a pain in my heart for those people, I said &#8220;Lord, this world is so full of pain and loss.&#8221; And in response, I heard a line from one of Darren&#8217;s songs, &#8220;I am securing you from loss.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I realized then that what Jesus did at Calvary, saves me from this kind of &#8220;loss&#8221;, if I let it. It saves those in Heaven from mourning us when we leave this world. And that there will never be a funeral procession in Heaven for those who are kept by His spirit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">So sweet, and so sad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Jerry<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John, I was doing yard work late in the day yesterday, and noticed several sheriffs\u2019 vehicles traveling in procession down hwy. 62 in front of the house. I stopped what I was doing and watched, and then saw bright red tractor trailer freight-haulers, all from the same company, lined up behind the sheriff&#8217;s vehicles. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}