{"id":353426,"date":"2026-11-03T07:49:58","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T12:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/?p=353426"},"modified":"2026-11-04T11:53:56","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T16:53:56","slug":"groaning-over-sin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/post\/groaning-over-sin\/","title":{"rendered":"Groaning Over Sin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"background-color: #f2f8fc; padding: 2em; border-left: 5px solid #ccc; margin: 1em 0;\"><p>We all growl like bears,<br \/>\nAnd\u00a0moan sadly like doves;<br \/>\nWe look for justice, but\u00a0there is\u00a0none;<br \/>\nFor salvation,\u00a0but\u00a0it is far from us.<br \/>\nFor our\u00a0transgressions are multiplied before You,<br \/>\nAnd our sins testify against us;<br \/>\nFor our transgressions\u00a0are\u00a0with us,<br \/>\nAnd as for our iniquities, we know them: (Isaiah 59:11-12)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All of humanity groans and cries out for justice, yet fails to realize that its sins multiply each day because it lives without any fear before God.<\/p>\n<p>People want justice and cry out for peace. Yet they are unwilling to pay the price of denying their corrupt hearts worldly pleasures and the practice of injustice against themselves and others. Thus, they remain far from ever being saved.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; We all growl like bears, And\u00a0moan sadly like doves; We look for justice, but\u00a0there is\u00a0none; For salvation,\u00a0but\u00a0it is far from us. For our\u00a0transgressions are multiplied before You, And our sins testify against us; For our transgressions\u00a0are\u00a0with us, And as for our iniquities, we know them: (Isaiah 59:11-12) &nbsp; All of humanity groans and cries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":248,"featured_media":353428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6248,377],"tags":[],"site":[],"class_list":["post-353426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ester-bezerra","category-women"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353426"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353429,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353426\/revisions\/353429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353426"},{"taxonomy":"site","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/site?post=353426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}