{"id":6,"date":"2009-05-13T14:19:46","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T18:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/200\/?p=6"},"modified":"2009-05-13T14:19:46","modified_gmt":"2009-05-13T18:19:46","slug":"amid-a-crowd-of-paltry-things-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2009\/05\/13\/amid-a-crowd-of-paltry-things-2\/","title":{"rendered":"AMID A CROWD OF PALTRY THINGS"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8230; in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in<br \/>\n     distresses.<\/p>\n<p>     &#8212; 2 Corinthians 6:4<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It takes Almighty grace to take the next step when there is no vision<br \/>\nand no spectator &#8211; the next step in devotion, the next step in your<br \/>\nstudy, in your reading, in your kitchen; the next step in your duty,<br \/>\nwhen there is no vision from God, no enthusiasm and no spectator. It<br \/>\ntakes far more of the grace of God, far more conscious drawing upon<br \/>\nGod to take that step, than it does to preach the Gospel.<\/p>\n<p>Every Christian has to partake of what was the essence of the<br \/>\nIncarnation, he must bring the thing down into flesh and blood<br \/>\nactualities and work it out through the finger tips. We flag when<br \/>\nthere is no vision, no uplift, but just the common round, the trivial<br \/>\ntask. The thing that tells in the long run for God and for men is the<br \/>\nsteady persevering work in the unseen, and the only way to keep the<br \/>\nlife uncrushed is to live looking to God. Ask God to keep the eyes of<br \/>\nyour spirit open to the Risen Christ, and it will be impossible for<br \/>\ndrudgery to damp you. Continually get away from pettiness and<br \/>\npaltriness of mind and thought out into the thirteenth chapter of St.<br \/>\nJohn&#8217;s Gospel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses. &#8212; 2 Corinthians 6:4 It takes Almighty grace to take the next step when there is no vision and no spectator &#8211; the next step in devotion, the next step in your study, in your reading, in your kitchen; the next step in your duty,&#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-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","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=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}