{"id":4278,"date":"2009-04-01T21:42:45","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T01:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/april2009\/?p=8"},"modified":"2009-04-01T21:42:45","modified_gmt":"2009-04-02T01:42:45","slug":"psalms-369-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2009\/04\/01\/psalms-369-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Psalms 36:9"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;With thee is the fountain of life.&#8221;<br \/>\n              &#8212; Psalms 36:9<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are times in our spiritual experience when human counsel or<br \/>\nsympathy, or religious ordinances, fail to comfort or help us. Why does<br \/>\nour gracious God permit this? Perhaps it is because we have been living<br \/>\ntoo much without him, and he therefore takes away everything upon which<br \/>\nwe have been in the habit of depending, that he may drive us to<br \/>\nhimself. It is a blessed thing to live at the fountain head. While our<br \/>\nskin- bottles are full, we are content, like Hagar and Ishmael, to go<br \/>\ninto the wilderness; but when those are dry, nothing will serve us but<br \/>\n&#8220;Thou God seest me.&#8221; We are like the prodigal, we love the<br \/>\nswine-troughs and forget our Father&#8217;s house. Remember, we can make<br \/>\nswine-troughs and husks even out of the forms of religion; they are<br \/>\nblessed things, but we may put them in God&#8217;s place, and then they are<br \/>\nof no value. Anything becomes an idol when it keeps us away from God:<br \/>\neven the brazen serpent is to be despised as &#8220;Nehushtan,&#8221; if we worship<br \/>\nit instead of God. The prodigal was never safer than when he was driven<br \/>\nto his father&#8217;s bosom, because he could find sustenance nowhere else.<br \/>\nOur Lord favours us with a famine in the land that it may make us seek<br \/>\nafter himself the more. The best position for a Christian is living<br \/>\nwholly and directly on God&#8217;s grace-still abiding where he stood at<br \/>\nfirst-&#8220;Having nothing, and yet possessing all things.&#8221; Let us never for<br \/>\na moment think that our standing is in our sanctification, our<br \/>\nmortification, our graces, or our feelings, but know that because<br \/>\nChrist offered a full atonement, therefore we are saved; for we are<br \/>\ncomplete in him. Having nothing of our own to trust to, but resting<br \/>\nupon the merits of Jesus-his passion and holy life furnish us with the<br \/>\nonly sure ground of confidence. Beloved, when we are brought to a<br \/>\nthirsting condition, we are sure to turn to the fountain of life with<br \/>\neagerness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;With thee is the fountain of life.&#8221; &#8212; Psalms 36:9 There are times in our spiritual experience when human counsel or sympathy, or religious ordinances, fail to comfort or help us. Why does our gracious God permit this? Perhaps it is because we have been living too much without him, and he therefore takes away&#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-4278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4278","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=4278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}