{"id":4249,"date":"2009-03-14T16:34:13","date_gmt":"2009-03-14T20:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/april2009\/?p=44"},"modified":"2009-03-14T16:34:13","modified_gmt":"2009-03-14T20:34:13","slug":"psalms-2214-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2009\/03\/14\/psalms-2214-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Psalms 22:14"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of<br \/>\n       joint.&#8221;<br \/>\n              &#8212; Psalms 22:14<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Did earth or heaven ever behold a sadder spectacle of woe! In soul and<br \/>\nbody, our Lord felt himself to be weak as water poured upon the ground.<br \/>\nThe placing of the cross in its socket had shaken him with great<br \/>\nviolence, had strained all the ligaments, pained every nerve, and more<br \/>\nor less dislocated all his bones. Burdened with his own weight, the<br \/>\naugust sufferer felt the strain increasing every moment of those six<br \/>\nlong hours. His sense of faintness and general weakness were<br \/>\noverpowering; while to his own consciousness he became nothing but a<br \/>\nmass of misery and swooning sickness. When Daniel saw the great vision,<br \/>\nhe thus describes his sensations, &#8220;There remained no strength in me,<br \/>\nfor my vigour was turned into corruption, and I retained no strength:&#8221;<br \/>\nhow much more faint must have been our greater Prophet when he saw the<br \/>\ndread vision of the wrath of God, and felt it in his own soul! To us,<br \/>\nsensations such as our Lord endured would have been insupportable, and<br \/>\nkind unconsciousness would have come to our rescue; but in his case, he<br \/>\nwas wounded, and felt the sword; he drained the cup and tasted every<br \/>\ndrop.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;O King of Grief! (a title strange, yet true<br \/>\nTo thee of all kings only due)<br \/>\nO King of Wounds! how shall I grieve for thee,<br \/>\nWho in all grief preventest me!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As we kneel before our now ascended Saviour&#8217;s throne, let us remember<br \/>\nwell the way by which he prepared it as a throne of grace for us; let<br \/>\nus in spirit drink of his cup, that we may be strengthened for our hour<br \/>\nof heaviness whenever it may come. In his natural body every member<br \/>\nsuffered, and so must it be in the spiritual; but as out of all his<br \/>\ngriefs and woes his body came forth uninjured to glory and power, even<br \/>\nso shall his mystical body come through the furnace with not so much as<br \/>\nthe smell of fire upon it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint.&#8221; &#8212; Psalms 22:14 Did earth or heaven ever behold a sadder spectacle of woe! In soul and body, our Lord felt himself to be weak as water poured upon the ground. The placing of the cross in its socket had shaken&#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-4249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249","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=4249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}