{"id":9616,"date":"2022-10-20T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=9616"},"modified":"2022-10-19T11:28:12","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T17:28:12","slug":"did-you-hear-that-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=9616","title":{"rendered":"Did You Hear That Call?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Thursday, October 20, 2022<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Though Our Way May Seem Dark,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Burdened With Our Pasts,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

God\u2019s Light Guides Us<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Onward Each Day.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Isaiah 12:1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You will say on that day: I will give thanks to you, O Lord, for though you were angry with me, your anger turned away, and you comforted me.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matthew 9:13<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Go and learn what this means, \u201cI desire mercy, not sacrifice.\u201d For I have come to call not the righteous but sinners.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

When the cell phone rings it plays a wonderful tune, reminding me of the person who is calling. Or if it is an unknown to me caller it plays the default, rather unpleasant ringtone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am fortunate that I do not get angry phone calls. I get enough angry visitors who have displaced their anger and focused at me. Hard to tell what they were legitimately angry at or about, and sometimes it\u2019s hard to tell what they are angry about that involves me. Mind you I get other visitors, too, it\u2019s just the angry and violent ones are more memorable in the danger they could be to me. So far nothing has come of any of their anger, usually drunken or drug enhanced anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Getting anger directed at one by God … well that\u2019s a whole other level of anger and a real and present danger!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fortunately I can say, and I would hope, we all can say: I will give thanks to you, O Lord, for though you were angry with me, your anger turned away, and you comforted me.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We trust in God\u2019s Grace made clear to us by Jesus\u2019 sacrifice and call for us to follow him. We were and still are sinners, and Jesus comes <\/em>to call not the righteous but sinners.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So that certainly includes all of us.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sinners.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet God-made-saints, by Grace alone.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is enough for any day, and every day, including today.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks we give to God for that,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

when we hear that ring-tone (Amazing Grace) of Christ\u2019 call.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thursday, October 20, 2022 Though Our Way May Seem Dark, Burdened With Our Pasts, God\u2019s Light Guides Us Onward Each Day. Isaiah 12:1 You will say on that day: I will give thanks to you, O Lord, for though you were angry with me, your anger turned away, and you comforted me. Matthew 9:13 Go … Continue reading “Did You Hear That Call?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,57,4,18,86,87,39,69,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dark-and-light","category-daylight","category-fall","category-grace","category-hope","category-joy","category-sky","category-storm","category-trees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9616","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9621,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9616\/revisions\/9621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}