{"id":2216,"date":"2007-04-19T15:57:27","date_gmt":"2007-04-19T19:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/eng\/the-weary-soul-is-satiated"},"modified":"2007-04-19T15:57:27","modified_gmt":"2007-04-19T19:57:27","slug":"the-weary-soul-is-satiated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2007\/04\/19\/the-weary-soul-is-satiated\/","title":{"rendered":"The weary soul is satiated"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;Thou<br \/>\nhas chastised me, and I was chastised as a calf unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall<br \/>\nbe turned, for thou art Jehovah my God. Surely, after that I was turned I repented; and after that<br \/>\nI was instructed I smote upon my thigh; I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear<br \/>\nthe reproach of my youth&#8221;  (31:18, 19).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> But the prophet felt also assured that, in spite of the present<br \/>\ndespair, there must be a future and a hope in store for Israel. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As the ancient ordinances of the<br \/>\nsuccession of day and night cannot be broken, so the eternal sequences in the process of redemption,<br \/>\nsanctioned by a covenantal oath, are forever exempt from failing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p> And so from the cup of Jehovah<br \/>\nwrath and milk and honey are made to flow together. In this paradox lies the chief preciousness of<br \/>\nour faith.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Did not our Lord Jesus Christ pour the New Covenant out of a cup filled with blood?<br \/>\nWhat Jeremiah depicts here is neither a piece of unjustifiable optimism, nor a piece of unsanctified<br \/>\nnatural eschatology. No, the new order of things is baptized in the element of salvation. Jehovah<br \/>\nhas ransomed Jacob and redeemed him. The iniquity is forgiven, the sin remembered no more. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The weary soul is satiated, and the sorrowful soul replenished. The entire scene glows with the unearthly<br \/>\nsplendor of grace.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Thou has chastised me, and I was chastised as a calf unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned, for thou art Jehovah my God. Surely, after that I was turned I repented; and after that I was instructed I smote upon my thigh; I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}