{"id":135,"date":"2008-03-03T00:01:06","date_gmt":"2008-03-02T23:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/?p=135"},"modified":"2008-03-03T00:02:05","modified_gmt":"2008-03-02T23:02:05","slug":"lent-devotions-2008-monday-3-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/2008\/03\/03\/lent-devotions-2008-monday-3-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Lent Devotions 2008: Monday 3 March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>To this end we toil and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Saviour of all people, especially of those who believe.<\/em> 1 Timothy 4:10<\/p>\n<p>We have our hope set on the living God and in this hope we shall not be disappointed, for not only is He a kind God and hence the Saviour of all men, showering blessings upon them, but He is in a very special sense the Saviour of those who by faith embrace Him and His promise for to them He gives salvation and everlasting life in all its fullness.<\/p>\n<p>If Christ is the Saviour of all men then how much more will He reward those seek and serve Him. He will provide in abundance for those whom He made anew.<\/p>\n<p>The Living God is the providential preserver of all men but He is especially so for believers, for He not only physically and temporarily delivers them, but He also spiritually and eternally saves them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prayer: Lord God and Merciful Father, we look to You to look upon us with favour. We believe in You and we trust that You will shower abundant grace to us simply because we believe in You. You came to save all. May all those who believe that You truly came to save them receive Your blessings. Amen. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To this end we toil and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Saviour of all people, especially of those who believe. 1 Timothy 4:10 We have our hope set on the living God and in this hope we shall not be disappointed, for not only is He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lent-devotions-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}