{"id":4351,"date":"2009-06-14T20:04:40","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T00:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/200\/?p=37"},"modified":"2009-06-14T20:04:40","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T00:04:40","slug":"1-peter-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2009\/06\/14\/1-peter-27\/","title":{"rendered":"1 Peter 2:7"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;He is precious.&#8221;<br \/>\n              &#8212; 1 Peter 2:7<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As all the rivers run into the sea, so all delights centre in our<br \/>\nBeloved. The glances of his eyes outshine the sun: the beauties of his<br \/>\nface are fairer than the choicest flowers: no fragrance is like the<br \/>\nbreath of his mouth. Gems of the mine, and pearls from the sea, are<br \/>\nworthless things when measured by his preciousness. Peter tells us that<br \/>\nJesus is precious, but he did not and could not tell us how precious,<br \/>\nnor could any of us compute the value of God&#8217;s unspeakable gift. Words<br \/>\ncannot set forth the preciousness of the Lord Jesus to his people, nor<br \/>\nfully tell how essential he is to their satisfaction and happiness.<br \/>\nBeliever, have you not found in the midst of plenty a sore famine if<br \/>\nyour Lord has been absent? The sun was shining, but Christ had hidden<br \/>\nhimself, and all the world was black to you; or it was night, and since<br \/>\nthe bright and morning star was gone, no other star could yield you so<br \/>\nmuch as a ray of light. What a howling wilderness is this world without<br \/>\nour Lord! If once he hideth himself from us, withered are the flowers<br \/>\nof our garden; our pleasant fruits decay; the birds suspend their<br \/>\nsongs, and a tempest overturns our hopes. All earth&#8217;s candles cannot<br \/>\nmake daylight if the Sun of Righteousness be eclipsed. He is the soul<br \/>\nof our soul, the light of our light, the life of our life. Dear reader,<br \/>\nwhat wouldst thou do in the world without him, when thou wakest up and<br \/>\nlookest forward to the day&#8217;s battle? What wouldst thou do at night,<br \/>\nwhen thou comest home jaded and weary, if there were no door of<br \/>\nfellowship between thee and Christ? Blessed be his name, he will not<br \/>\nsuffer us to try our lot without him, for Jesus never forsakes his own.<br \/>\nYet, let the thought of what life would be without him enhance his<br \/>\npreciousness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;He is precious.&#8221; &#8212; 1 Peter 2:7 As all the rivers run into the sea, so all delights centre in our Beloved. The glances of his eyes outshine the sun: the beauties of his face are fairer than the choicest flowers: no fragrance is like the breath of his mouth. Gems of the mine, and&#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-4351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4351","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=4351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}