{"id":1504,"date":"2019-03-23T09:13:07","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T17:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=1504"},"modified":"2019-03-23T09:13:07","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T17:13:07","slug":"devotion-psalm-130-our-eyes-seek-out-and-find-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=1504","title":{"rendered":"Devotion       Psalm 130   Our Eyes Seek Out And Find God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"yiv0058351821ydp5dc7e59dMsoNoSpacing\"><b>Psalm 130\u00a0<\/b>&#8211;<b>\u00a0<\/b><i>Out of the depths\u00a0I cry to You,\u00a0Lord; 2 Lord, hear my voice. Let Your ears be attentive to my cry for mercy. 3\u00a0If You,\u00a0Lord, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand? 4\u00a0But with You there is forgiveness, so that we can, with reverence, serve You. 5\u00a0I wait for the\u00a0Lord,\u00a0my whole being waits, and in His word\u00a0I put my hope. 6\u00a0I wait for the Lord more than watchmen\u00a0wait for the morning, more than watchmen wait for the morning. 7\u00a0Israel, put your hope\u00a0in the\u00a0Lord, for with the\u00a0Lord\u00a0is unfailing love and with Him is full redemption. 8\u00a0He Himself will redeem\u00a0Israel from all their sins.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0058351821ydp5dc7e59dMsoNoSpacing\">\u201c<i>Out of the depths\u00a0I cry to You,\u00a0Lord<\/i>!\u201d<\/p>\n<div>Out of the depths of any circumstance or trouble I cry out to You my Hope, my Love, my God!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201c<i>Lord, hear my voice. Let Your ears be attentive to my cry for mercy.<\/i>\u201d<\/div>\n<div>I cry out to You who always and at all times, hears my voice.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201c<i>Let Your ears be attentive to my cry for mercy.<\/i>\u201d<\/div>\n<p class=\"yiv0058351821ydp5dc7e59dMsoNoSpacing\">When I ask for forgiveness I find that it has been prepared and waiting for me before all of creation.\u00a0 Because of Your love for me You are always listening for me!<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0058351821ydp5dc7e59dMsoNoSpacing\">\u00a0\u201c<i>If You,\u00a0Lord, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?<\/i>\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0058351821ydp5dc7e59dMsoNoSpacing\">If You Lord did not cast the memory of our sins from You then no-one could even approach you to repent, and certainly all would perish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0058351821ydp5dc7e59dMsoNoSpacing\">\u00a0\u201c<i>But with You there is forgiveness, so that we can, with reverence, serve You.<\/i>\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0058351821ydp5dc7e59dMsoNoSpacing\">But within Your loving grace, by the force of Your will, my sins are vanquished from Your memory.\u00a0 Because of who You are I can, in respect and with great reverence and love, serve You.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0058351821ydp5dc7e59dMsoNoSpacing\">\u00a0\u201c<i>I wait for the\u00a0Lord,\u00a0my whole being waits, and in His word\u00a0I put my hope.<\/i>\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0058351821ydp5dc7e59dMsoNoSpacing\">In the morning when my eyes open, all that I am first looks for Your beauty to trust in. Your Word, revealed to me by Your Spirit, is the storage room for all my hope.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0058351821ydp5dc7e59dMsoNoSpacing\">\u00a0\u201c<i>I wait for the Lord more than watchmen\u00a0wait for the morning, more than watchmen wait for the morning!<\/i>\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0058351821ydp5dc7e59dMsoNoSpacing\">More sure than the arrival of morning I know that Your love and protection are with me every day.\u00a0 More sure than the morning is Your love and protection!\u00a0 It is You I long and wait for!<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0058351821ydp5dc7e59dMsoNoSpacing\">\u00a0\u201c<i>Israel, put your hope\u00a0in the\u00a0Lord, for with the\u00a0Lord\u00a0is unfailing love and with Him is full redemption.<\/i>\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0058351821ydp5dc7e59dMsoNoSpacing\">Christian, we put our love, our confident hope, in the Lord.\u00a0 For His love never fails and at every step we walk into the new and fresh beauty that it is.\u00a0 His love is not an incomplete love but is complete, and those who walk in it find that freedom flows from it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0058351821ydp5dc7e59dMsoNoSpacing\">\u00a0\u201c<i>He Himself will redeem\u00a0Israel from all their sins.<\/i>\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0058351821ydp5dc7e59dMsoNoSpacing\">God Himself is our Helper and Savior and not is anyone or anything else.\u00a0 Always, without exception, He alone is our Rescuer!\u00a0 Though our sins are a free flowing fountain, greater are the depths of the pit that the Lord casts them, not us, into!\u00a0 Thank you Lord Jesus!\u00a0 Praise God!<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"yiv0058351821ydp5dc7e59dyiv8739318158ydp5f36d124msonospacing\"><b>Psalm 150:6<\/b>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<i>Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0058351821ydp5dc7e59dyiv8739318158ydp5f36d124msonospacing\"><b>Micah 7:7<\/b>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<i>But as for me, I watch\u00a0in hope\u00a0for the\u00a0Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear\u00a0me.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0058351821ydp5dc7e59dyiv8739318158ydp5f36d124msonospacing\"><b>Micah 6:8<\/b>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<i>He has shown You, O man, what\u00a0is\u00a0good; And what does the\u00a0Lord\u00a0require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with Your God.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psalm 130\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Out of the depths\u00a0I cry to You,\u00a0Lord; 2 Lord, hear my voice. Let Your ears be attentive to my cry for mercy. 3\u00a0If You,\u00a0Lord, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand? 4\u00a0But with You there is forgiveness, so that we can, with reverence, serve You. 5\u00a0I wait for the\u00a0Lord,\u00a0my whole being waits,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192],"tags":[94,17],"class_list":["post-1504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotion","tag-micah","tag-psalm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1505,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions\/1505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}