{"id":25214,"date":"2025-06-23T00:17:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T00:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=25214"},"modified":"2025-06-23T00:17:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T00:17:53","slug":"jesus-the-very-thought-of-thee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2025\/06\/jesus-the-very-thought-of-thee\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus, The Very Thought Of Thee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1 Jesus, the very thought of Thee<br \/>\nwith sweetness fills the breast;<br \/>\nbut sweeter far Thy face to see,<br \/>\nand in Thy presence rest.<\/p>\n<p>2 O hope of every contrite heart,<br \/>\nO joy of all the meek,<br \/>\nto those who fall, how kind Thou art!<br \/>\nHow good to those who seek!<\/p>\n<p>3 But what to those who find? Ah, this<br \/>\nnor tongue nor pen can show;<br \/>\nthe love of Jesus, what it is,<br \/>\nnone but his loved ones know.<\/p>\n<p>4 Jesus, our only joy be Thou,<br \/>\nas Thou our prize wilt be;<br \/>\nJesus, be Thou our glory now,<br \/>\nand through eternity.<\/p>\n<div class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"25214\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"box-shadow:none;-webkit-box-shadow:none;-moz-box-shadow:none;\"><div class=\"bookmark-off\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 Jesus, the very thought of Thee<br \/>\nwith sweetness fills the breast;<br \/>\nbut sweeter far Thy face to see,<br \/>\nand in Thy presence rest.<\/p>\n<p>2 O hope of every contrite heart,<br \/>\nO joy of all the meek,<br \/>\nto those who fall, how kind Thou art!<br \/>\nHow good to those who seek!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":25215,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1279],"tags":[1223],"class_list":["post-25214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-triune-jehovah","tag-divine-worship","post_format-post-format-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25214"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25217,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25214\/revisions\/25217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}