{"id":11493,"date":"2023-11-22T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=11493"},"modified":"2023-11-21T11:25:17","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T18:25:17","slug":"begging-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=11493","title":{"rendered":"Begging Low"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Before God<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday, November 22, 2023<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n
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As the day comes to a close, begging again, that all will be well.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Job 9:2-3<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indeed I know that this is so; but how can a mortal be just before God? If one wished to contend with him, one could not answer him once in a thousand.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luke 15:18<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I will get up and go to my father, and I will say to him, \u2018Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you ….<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Words of Grace For Today<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We would like to think that we can justify ourselves, before others to be sure, but also before God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yikes!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So much trouble comes from that thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Starting a new day<\/p>\n\n\n\n

one begins begging<\/p>\n\n\n\n

again<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and<\/p>\n\n\n\n

again<\/p>\n\n\n\n

for God\u2019s mercy and forgiveness,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

for we cannot make ourselves righteous,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

nor free from our sinful past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That only God can do for us,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and God promises to do just that<\/p>\n\n\n\n

if we but just ask.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So begging it is<\/p>\n\n\n\n

to start and end each day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unless, of course, it is an ordinary day when we try to justify ourselves to ourselves and God,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

which leads to more disastrous days than we care to remember.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So<\/p>\n\n\n\n

what are we waiting for?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God promises us ….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before God Wednesday, November 22, 2023 As the day comes to a close, begging again, that all will be well. Job 9:2-3 Indeed I know that this is so; but how can a mortal be just before God? If one wished to contend with him, one could not answer him once in a thousand. Luke … Continue reading “Begging Low”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,18,23,39,71,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall","category-grace","category-lake","category-sky","category-sunset","category-trees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11498,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11493\/revisions\/11498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}