{"id":339,"date":"2024-10-27T07:07:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-27T14:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christourlife.ca\/blog\/?p=339"},"modified":"2024-10-27T07:43:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T14:43:48","slug":"7-how-could-it-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christourlife.ca\/blog\/?p=339","title":{"rendered":"7. How Could it Be"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>How Could it Be?<br>(Isaiah 53:10, Matt 27:46)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How could it be that this Child, in a manger lay,<br>Would hang on a cross?<br>How could it be that His head, so innocent,<br>Would be pierced with thorns?<br>How could it be?<br>It was for me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chorus:<br>It pleased the Father to bruise Him<br>His Child, to atone for all sin<br>And turning His face from the One He adores<br>How painful that it must have been<br>The perfect Lamb of God becoming sin, how could it be?<br>It\u2019s all because of love, and all to save a wretch like me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How could it be that these hands of a little Child<br>Would have nail pierced scars?<br>How could it be that His side wrapped in swaddling clothes<br>A sharp spear would mar?<br>How could it be?<br>It was for me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bridge:<br>O come and adore Him<br>Our God, He is Christ the Lord<br>O come and behold Him<br>Our Saviour the King of Kings<br>O come and adore Him<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a9 2024 Christ Our Life<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2304\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-339-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christourlife.ca\/images\/music\/come-to-the-stable-cd\/07%20-%20How%20Could%20It%20Be.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christourlife.ca\/images\/music\/come-to-the-stable-cd\/07%20-%20How%20Could%20It%20Be.mp3\">https:\/\/www.christourlife.ca\/images\/music\/come-to-the-stable-cd\/07%20-%20How%20Could%20It%20Be.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christourlife.ca\/images\/music\/come-to-the-stable-cd\/07%20-%20How%20Could%20It%20Be.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.christourlife.ca\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=339-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christourlife.ca\/images\/music\/come-to-the-stable-cd\/07%20-%20How%20Could%20It%20Be.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"07%20-%20How%20Could%20It%20Be.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Could it Be?(Isaiah 53:10, Matt 27:46) How could it be that this Child, in a manger lay,Would hang on a cross?How could it be that His head, so innocent,Would be pierced with thorns?How could it be?It was for me Chorus:It pleased the Father to bruise HimHis Child, to atone for all sinAnd turning His &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christourlife.ca\/blog\/?p=339\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">7. How Could it Be<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christourlife.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christourlife.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christourlife.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christourlife.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christourlife.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.christourlife.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/www.christourlife.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christourlife.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christourlife.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christourlife.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}