{"id":1679,"date":"2019-07-04T08:41:31","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T16:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=1679"},"modified":"2019-07-04T08:41:31","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T16:41:31","slug":"devotion-psalm-3011-12-peace-in-gratitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=1679","title":{"rendered":"Devotion Psalm 30:11-12 Peace In Gratitude"},"content":{"rendered":"

Psalm 30:11-12\u00a0<\/b>\u2013\u00a0You turned my wailing\u00a0into dancing; you removed my sackcloth\u00a0and clothed me with joy, 12\u00a0that my heart may sing your praises and not be silent.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Lord<\/span>\u00a0my God, I will praise\u00a0you forever.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

S<\/i>ome have lived in pain virtually, or in reality, day after day and year after year.\u00a0 Some have lived in sadness and hurt that just seemed it could never go away.\u00a0 Some have seen disappointment after disappointment, from external circumstances and from the consequences of one\u2019s own decisions, so that it seemed that if they didn\u2019t have disappointment they wouldn\u2019t have anything at all.\u00a0 We have been employed and unemployed.\u00a0 We have enjoyed the life of people and pets.\u00a0 We have known the beauty of a sunrise, the pristine calm and magnificence of the moon in the sky, and the spectacular beauty of the sky painted by a sunset.\u00a0 We have heard the beauty that is in a baby\u2019s first cry, and we have known the healing wonder of a baby\u2019s gaze and the pure satisfaction shown in a baby\u2019s coo.\u00a0 We have felt the love of our parents holding us.\u00a0 The safety of sitting in their laps.\u00a0 The all-encompassing love they gave us.\u00a0 We have known that we could not be hurt without them being hurt.\u00a0 Many have known the touch of a spouse and the look of love in their eyes that says to us \u201cI love you with all that I am.\u201d\u00a0 We have seen beauty that made us cry and ugliness that brought repulsion and broken hearts.\u00a0 The list of joys and pains is endless, as we all have seen and known great pain and sorrow and great joy and happiness.<\/div>\n

So much beauty and so much pain in this world.\u00a0 For all of the undulations of pain and joy, of beauty and ugliness, there is only one true beauty that causes deep-down-in-the-soul-unshakable-peace-and-calm.\u00a0 It is knowing and being the grateful recipient of God\u2019s love that is fully and solely expressed through Jesus Christ His Son.\u00a0 Only in Jesus is perfect and lasting peace and joy found.\u00a0 Though the winds blow, though the waters threaten, though the fire eats, and though life breathes its last, it is God who always is and always will be, the salve that heals all hurts.\u00a0 When we consider our great future, which is the goal for all who strive to live eternally with Him, our hearts and our souls sing with praises to Him that cannot, and will not be silenced.\u00a0 We live with our imperfect selves, we live among imperfect people in imperfect nations in an imperfect world.\u00a0 But this is not our home, it is not our goal, it is not our treasure.\u00a0 Us, our neighbors, our cities, our nations and our world all contain evil and good.\u00a0 Perfection is only found with God.\u00a0 If we set our eyes, our hopes and our dreams on Him then the peace that God gives cannot be stolen.\u00a0 When we determine to know nothing if we don\u2019t know the goodness and love of God, our satisfaction in the sure promise of a perfect eternity cannot be stolen because God will not allow it to be.\u00a0 Those who humble themselves before the Son, and who desire to remain in that position, will forever live in perfect, yes perfect, love, joy, peace and happiness.\u00a0\u00a0 All this is just more reason to love Him.\u00a0 Love and serve Him because of who He is. Let\u2019s be thankful that He loves us so greatly and eternally.\u00a0 Let\u2019s praise Him every day of our lives.\u00a0 Yes, hallelujah!\u00a0 Praise you God! Today and every day we look to You and with grateful hearts and praise You!\u00a0\u00a0 Praise You God!<\/p>\n

Psalm 150:6<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!<\/i><\/p>\n

Micah 7:7<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0But 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

Micah 6:8<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0He 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Psalm 30:11-12\u00a0\u2013\u00a0You turned my wailing\u00a0into dancing; you removed my sackcloth\u00a0and clothed me with joy, 12\u00a0that my heart may sing your praises and not be silent.\u00a0\u00a0Lord\u00a0my God, I will praise\u00a0you forever. Some have lived in pain virtually, or in reality, day after day and year after year.\u00a0 Some have lived in sadness and hurt that just…<\/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-1679","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\/1679","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=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1680,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions\/1680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}