{"id":4289,"date":"2009-04-06T12:07:47","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T16:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/april2009\/?p=16"},"modified":"2009-04-06T12:07:47","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T16:07:47","slug":"song-of-solomon-54-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2009\/04\/06\/song-of-solomon-54-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Song of Solomon 5:4"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;My Beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my<br \/>\n       bowels were moved for him.&#8221;<br \/>\n              &#8212; Song of Solomon 5:4<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Knocking was not enough, for my heart was too full of sleep, too cold<br \/>\nand ungrateful to arise and open the door, but the touch of his<br \/>\neffectual grace has made my soul bestir itself. Oh, the longsuffering<br \/>\nof my Beloved, to tarry when he found himself shut out, and me asleep<br \/>\nupon the bed of sloth! Oh, the greatness of his patience, to knock and<br \/>\nknock again, and to add his voice to his knockings, beseeching me to<br \/>\nopen to him! How could I have refused him! Base heart, blush and be<br \/>\nconfounded! But what greatest kindness of all is this, that he becomes<br \/>\nhis own porter and unbars the door himself. Thrice blessed is the hand<br \/>\nwhich condescends to lift the latch and turn the key. Now I see that<br \/>\nnothing but my Lord&#8217;s own power can save such a naughty mass of<br \/>\nwickedness as I am; ordinances fail, even the gospel has no effect upon<br \/>\nme, till his hand is stretched out. Now, also, I perceive that his hand<br \/>\nis good where all else is unsuccessful, he can open when nothing else<br \/>\nwill. Blessed be his name, I feel his gracious presence even now. Well<br \/>\nmay my bowels move for him, when I think of all that he has suffered<br \/>\nfor me, and of my ungenerous return. I have allowed my affections to<br \/>\nwander. I have set up rivals. I have grieved him. Sweetest and dearest<br \/>\nof all beloveds, I have treated thee as an unfaithful wife treats her<br \/>\nhusband. Oh, my cruel sins, my cruel self. What can I do? Tears are a<br \/>\npoor show of my repentance, my whole heart boils with indignation at<br \/>\nmyself. Wretch that I am, to treat my Lord, my All in All, my exceeding<br \/>\ngreat joy, as though he were a stranger. Jesus, thou forgivest freely,<br \/>\nbut this is not enough, prevent my unfaithfulness in the future. Kiss<br \/>\naway these tears, and then purge my heart and bind it with sevenfold<br \/>\ncords to thyself, never to wander more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;My Beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.&#8221; &#8212; Song of Solomon 5:4 Knocking was not enough, for my heart was too full of sleep, too cold and ungrateful to arise and open the door, but the touch of his effectual grace has made&#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-4289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4289","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=4289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}