{"id":5551,"date":"2021-03-05T12:37:19","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T18:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nazareneblogs.org\/pastorscott\/?p=5551"},"modified":"2021-03-05T12:37:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T18:37:19","slug":"devotional-on-jeremiah-76","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/devotional-on-jeremiah-76\/","title":{"rendered":"Devotional on Jeremiah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure style=\"width: 1600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-yUTPAFuyxGI\/YEFhoKVtK6I\/AAAAAAABI5M\/CIUDS_Nx0E4H-ojvmdYHlZvlNWzDk31KQCPcBGAsYHg\/s1600\/mt%2Branier%2Bnational%2Bpark%2B-%2B%2B8-13-2009%2B7-20-36%2BPM.JPG\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" class=\"size-large\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">2009 &#8211; Mt Ranier National Park, WA<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nLoving, doing, and fixing<br \/>\nJeremiah 9: I&#8217;m God&#8230;these are my trademarks.<br \/>\nJeremiah says that certain things define God.  First, he says that God acts &#8220;in loyal love.&#8221;  Centuries later John will declare that &#8220;God is love&#8221; but Jeremiah has already beaten John to the punch.  God thinks of himself in terms of his faithful love for his Creation; for you and me.  Second, I see that he does &#8220;what&#8217;s right&#8221; and sets &#8220;things right and fair.&#8221;  The Lord fixes things.  He doesn&#8217;t leave them as he finds them.  Right now, God\u2019s at work &#8220;fixing&#8221; this broken world and he won&#8217;t rest until he\u2019s done it.  Finally, God delights in &#8220;those who do the same things.&#8221;  The Lord isn&#8217;t working solo in his &#8220;loving, doing, and fixing&#8221; efforts in this world.  He\u2019s very pleased when we join him in these things.  Once I respond to his love and his &#8220;setting things right&#8221; in my life, he invites me to join him in what he\u2019s doing in the world.  When I do that, it&#8217;s a delight to him.<br \/>\nTake Away: The Lord isn&#8217;t working solo in his &#8220;loving, doing, and fixing&#8221; efforts in this world \u2013 rather, he invites us to join him in this great work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loving, doing, and fixing Jeremiah 9: I&#8217;m God&#8230;these are my trademarks. Jeremiah says that certain things define God. First, he says that God acts &#8220;in loyal love.&#8221; Centuries later John will declare that &#8220;God is love&#8221; but Jeremiah has already beaten John to the punch. God thinks of himself in terms of his faithful love [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1504,7],"tags":[132,439,473],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5551"}],"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=5551"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15133,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5551\/revisions\/15133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}