{"id":43018,"date":"2023-01-16T02:00:27","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T10:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/?p=24108"},"modified":"2023-01-16T02:00:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T10:00:27","slug":"24108-2-2-2-2-2-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/archives\/43018","title":{"rendered":"Faith\u2019s Check Book, January 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even the Faintest Call <\/p>\n<p>Scripture: &#8220;And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shalt be delivered&#8221;(Joel 2:32).<\/p>\n<p>        Why do I not call on His name? Why do I run to this neighbor and that when God is so near and will hear my faintest call? Why do I sit down and devise schemes and invent plans! Why not at once roll myself and my burden upon the LORD? Straightforward is the best runner &#8212; why do I not run at once to the living God? In vain shall I look for deliverance anywhere else; but with God I shall find it; for here I have His royal &#8220;shall&#8221; to make it sure.<\/p>\n<p>         I need not ask whether I may call on Him or not, for that word whosoever is a very wide and comprehensive one. Whosoever means me, for it means anybody and everybody who calls upon God. I will therefore follow the leading of the text and at once call upon the glorious LORD who has made so large a promise.<\/p>\n<p>         My case is urgent, and I do not see how I am to be delivered; but this is no business of mine. He who makes the promise will find out ways and means of keeping it. It is mine to obey His commands; it is not mine to direct His counsels. I am His servant, not His solicitor. I call upon Him, and He will deliver me. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even the Faintest Call <\/p>\n<p>Scripture: &#8220;And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shalt be delivered&#8221;(Joel 2:32).<\/p>\n<p> Why do I not call on His name? Why do I run to this neighbor and that when God is so near and will hear my faintest call? [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-43018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-checkbook","tag-faiths-check-book","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}