{"id":43953,"date":"2023-07-22T02:00:08","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T09:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/?p=24706"},"modified":"2023-07-22T02:00:08","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T09:00:08","slug":"24706-2-2-2-2-2-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/archives\/43953","title":{"rendered":"Faith&#8217;s Check Book, July 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Eternal Pledge <\/p>\n<p>And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in loving kindness, and in mercies. I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness; and thou shalt know the Lord. (Hosea 2:19-20) <\/p>\n<p>Betrothment unto the Lord! What an honor and a joy! My soul, is Jesus indeed thine by His own condescending betrothal? Then, mark it is forever. He will never break His engagement, much less sue out a divorce against a soul joined to Himself in marriage bonds.<\/p>\n<p>Three times the Lord says, &#8220;I will betroth thee.&#8221; What words He heaps together to set forth the betrothal! Righteousness comes in to make the covenant legal; none can forbid these lawful bans. Judgment sanctions the alliance with its decree: none can see folly or error in the match. Lovingkindness warrants that this is a love union, for without love betrothal is bondage and not blessedness. Meanwhile, mercy smiles and even sings; yea, she multiplies herself into &#8220;mercies&#8221; because of the abounding grace of this holy union.<\/p>\n<p>Faithfulness is the registrar and records the marriage, and the Holy Spirit says &#8220;Amen&#8221; to it as He promises to teach the betrothal heart all the sacred knowledge needful for its high destiny, What a promise!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Eternal Pledge <\/p>\n<p>And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in loving kindness, and in mercies. I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness; and thou shalt know the Lord. (Hosea 2:19-20) <\/p>\n<p>Betrothment unto the Lord! What [&#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-43953","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\/43953","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=43953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}