{"id":44058,"date":"2023-08-12T02:00:34","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T09:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/?p=24785"},"modified":"2023-08-12T02:00:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T09:00:34","slug":"24785-2-2-2-2-2-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/archives\/44058","title":{"rendered":"Faith\u2019s Check Book, August 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Light in Darkness<\/p>\n<p>For thou art my lamp, O Lord: and the Lord will lighten my darkness. (2 Samuel 22:29) <\/p>\n<p>Am I in the light? Then Thou, O Lord, art my lamp. Take Thee away and my joy would be gone; but as long as Thou art with me, I can do without the torches of time and the candles of created comfort. What a light the presence of God casts on all things! We heard of a lighthouse which could be seen for twenty miles, but our Jehovah is not only a God at hand, but far off is He seen, even in the enemy&#8217;s country. O Lord, I am as happy as an angel when Thy love fills my heart. Thou art all my desire.<\/p>\n<p>Am I in the dark? Then thou, O Lord, wilt lighten my darkness. Before long things will change. Affairs may grow more and more dreary and cloud may be piled upon cloud; but if it grow so dark that I cannot see my own hand, still I shall see the hand of the Lord. When I cannot find a light within me, or among my friends, or in the whole world, the Lord, who said, &#8220;Let there be light,&#8221; and there was light, can say the same again. He will speak me into the sunshine yet. I shall not die but live. The day is already breaking. This sweet text shines like a morning star. I shall clap my hands for joy ere many hours are passed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Light in Darkness<\/p>\n<p>For thou art my lamp, O Lord: and the Lord will lighten my darkness. (2 Samuel 22:29) <\/p>\n<p>Am I in the light? Then Thou, O Lord, art my lamp. Take Thee away and my joy would be gone; but as long as Thou art with me, I can do without the [&#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-44058","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\/44058","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=44058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}