{"id":136,"date":"2008-03-04T00:01:48","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T23:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/?p=136"},"modified":"2008-03-04T00:06:12","modified_gmt":"2008-03-03T23:06:12","slug":"lent-devotions-2008-tuesday-4-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/2008\/03\/04\/lent-devotions-2008-tuesday-4-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Lent Devotions 2008: Tuesday 4 March"},"content":{"rendered":"

The LORD is my Strength and my Song,
\nand He has become my Salvation;
\nthis is my God, and I will praise Him,
\nmy father\u2019s God, and I will exalt Him. (<\/em>Exodus 15:2)<\/p>\n

I often wonder how society, in fifty years say, has changed so much so that we can\u2019t leave our front (or back) doors open. When we are walking, be it to the shops, to your car, through the woods or even down a footpath, there is always that feeling of being unsure of what or who is behind you. Now I don\u2019t know firsthand what it was like many years ago but I have been told many stories, as I am sure many have. Doesn\u2019t it seem like a completely different world? Do people realise what today\u2019s society and yesterday\u2019s society and no doubt the future\u2019s society is doing to the world? Does it feel like there must be a turning point?<\/p>\n

Yes, \u2018The Lord is my strength and song, and He is become my salvation: He is my God\u2019. Before this Bible verse is the story of Moses leading the Israelites away with the Egyptians chasing after them. They knew who were behind them. They were afraid but the Lord spoke to them through Moses and they were saved. Even when we are never sure of what is behind us, or indeed lies ahead for us, we are always with the comfort that God is fighting for us. He is our strength and light in the dark; our Saviour.<\/p>\n

Prayer: Dear Father in Heaven, it is clear we have never changed; we were sinful people, are sinful people and will be sinful people. We pray that Your Perfect Son remain in our stead and take us to Heaven one day to be with You, where we will no longer wonder who is behind us. We will forever be in Your surrounding, guarding Presence. Thank You for Jesus\u2019 sake, Amen.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The LORD is my Strength and my Song, and He has become my Salvation; this is my God, and I will praise Him, my father\u2019s God, and I will exalt Him. (Exodus 15:2) I often wonder how society, in fifty years say, has changed so much so that we can\u2019t leave our front (or back) […]<\/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-136","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\/136","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=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}