{"id":5132,"date":"2023-11-06T01:25:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T07:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nazareneblogs.org\/pastorscott\/?p=5132"},"modified":"2023-11-06T01:25:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T07:25:00","slug":"devotional-on-the-psalms-41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/devotional-on-the-psalms-41\/","title":{"rendered":"Devotional on the Psalms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure style=\"width: 1600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-IdXsM7qTwNo\/X0RKkA37qcI\/AAAAAAABF6s\/SPAH-FQbuKcP9Tx982aPrm6ERs9fo5rpwCPcBGAsYHg\/s1600\/IMG_8691.jpg\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1043\" class=\"size-large\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">2019 &#8211; Chagrin Falls&#8230;just south of Cleveland, OH<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nBalancing the books<br \/>\nPsalm 10: God&#8217;s grace and order wins.<br \/>\nAs did Job, the Psalmist considers the inequities of life.  The wicked say, &#8220;God is dead&#8221; and continue down their evil paths.  The Psalmist seeks God, knowing God is just and tries to understand how a just God can allow injustice to continue.  He concludes that he hasn&#8217;t seen the end of it all yet.  Sooner or later (and he hopes it\u2019s sooner) God\u2019s going to make things right.  When he does, he says, the &#8220;orphans get parents&#8221; and the &#8220;homeless get homes.&#8221;   That doesn&#8217;t mean I become a fatalist who makes no effort to right the wrongs in this world, but it does mean that I don&#8217;t get overwhelmed by it all and give up in despair.  My best efforts will make a difference in the lives of those I minister to in the Name of the Lord, but a day is coming when the Lord will square every account.  God will balance the books.<br \/>\nTake Away: The Lord has the last word in human affairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Balancing the books Psalm 10: God&#8217;s grace and order wins. As did Job, the Psalmist considers the inequities of life. The wicked say, &#8220;God is dead&#8221; and continue down their evil paths. The Psalmist seeks God, knowing God is just and tries to understand how a just God can allow injustice to continue. He concludes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,7],"tags":[148,339,645,713],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5132"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14777,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5132\/revisions\/14777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}