{"id":958,"date":"2010-03-29T07:00:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T06:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/?p=958"},"modified":"2010-02-20T12:18:59","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T11:18:59","slug":"lent-devotions-2010-monday-29-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/2010\/03\/29\/lent-devotions-2010-monday-29-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Lent Devotions 2010: Monday 29 March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>\u201cTruly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life.\u00a0 He does not come into judgement, but has passed from death to life.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 John 5:24<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During my lifetime here on earth, I have come to face many trials and tribulations.\u00a0 But I pray and believe that my Lord and Saviour has answered my prayers.\u00a0 There have been a few deaths in my family, and I now look forward to getting on with the remaining years of my life \u2013 where I will be joined with my dear departed loved ones, to be united with them in heaven.\u00a0 I quote from one of my favourite hymns:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>Love divine, all loves excelling<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Joy of heaven, to earth come down!<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Fix in us Thy humble dwelling,<br \/>\n<\/em><em>All Thy faithful mercies crown.<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Jesus, Thou are all compassion,<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Pure, unbounded love Thou art;<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Visit us with Thy salvation,<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Enter every trembling heart.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Finish then Thy new creation,<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Pure and spotless let us be;<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Let us see Thy great salvation<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Perfectly restored in Thee,<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Changed from glory into glory,<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Till in heaven we take our place<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Till we cast our crowns before Thee,<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Lost in wonder, love and praise!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>(LSB 700)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gracious heavenly Father, I know I have sinned in thought, words and deeds, but I believe and trust that You have forgiven me.\u00a0 In Jesus&#8217; name I pray, Amen.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTruly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life.\u00a0 He does not come into judgement, but has passed from death to life.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 John 5:24 During my lifetime here on earth, I have come to face many trials and tribulations.\u00a0 But I pray and believe that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lent-devotions-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958","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=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":960,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions\/960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}