{"id":4322,"date":"2009-04-18T22:55:10","date_gmt":"2009-04-19T02:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/april2009\/?p=72"},"modified":"2009-04-18T22:55:10","modified_gmt":"2009-04-19T02:55:10","slug":"2-peter-318-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2009\/04\/18\/2-peter-318-2\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Peter 3:18"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;To him be glory both now and forever.&#8221;<br \/>\n              &#8212; 2 Peter 3:18<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Heaven will be full of the ceaseless praises of Jesus. Eternity! thine<br \/>\nunnumbered years shall speed their everlasting course, but forever and<br \/>\nfor ever, &#8220;to him be glory.&#8221; Is he not a &#8220;Priest for ever after the<br \/>\norder of Melchizedek- &#8220;To him be glory.&#8221; Is he not king for ever?-King<br \/>\nof kings and Lord of lords, the everlasting Father? &#8220;To him be glory<br \/>\nfor ever.&#8221; Never shall his praises cease. That which was bought with<br \/>\nblood deserves to last while immortality endures. The glory of the<br \/>\ncross must never be eclipsed; the lustre of the grave and of the<br \/>\nresurrection must never be dimmed. O Jesus! thou shalt be praised for<br \/>\never. Long as immortal spirits live-long as the Father&#8217;s throne<br \/>\nendures-for ever, for ever, unto thee shall be glory. Believer, you are<br \/>\nanticipating the time when you shall join the saints above in ascribing<br \/>\nall glory to Jesus; but are you glorifying him now? The apostle&#8217;s words<br \/>\nare, &#8220;To him be glory both now and for ever.&#8221; Will you not this day<br \/>\nmake it your prayer? &#8220;Lord, help me to glorify thee; I am poor, help me<br \/>\nto glorify thee by contentment; I am sick, help me to give thee honour<br \/>\nby patience; I have talents, help me to extol thee by spending them for<br \/>\nthee; I have time, Lord, help me to redeem it, that I may serve thee; I<br \/>\nhave a heart to feel, Lord, let that heart feel no love but thine, and<br \/>\nglow with no flame but affection for thee; I have a head to think,<br \/>\nLord, help me to think of thee and for thee; thou hast put me in this<br \/>\nworld for something, Lord, show me what that is, and help me to work<br \/>\nout my life-purpose: I cannot do much, but as the widow put in her two<br \/>\nmites, which were all her living, so, Lord, I cast my time and eternity<br \/>\ntoo into thy treasury; I am all thine; take me, and enable me to<br \/>\nglorify thee now, in all that I say, in all that I do, and with all<br \/>\nthat I have.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;To him be glory both now and forever.&#8221; &#8212; 2 Peter 3:18 Heaven will be full of the ceaseless praises of Jesus. Eternity! thine unnumbered years shall speed their everlasting course, but forever and for ever, &#8220;to him be glory.&#8221; Is he not a &#8220;Priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek- &#8220;To him be&#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-4322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4322","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=4322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}