{"id":7571,"date":"2011-06-29T18:38:03","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T22:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/?p=7571"},"modified":"2011-06-29T18:38:03","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T22:38:03","slug":"2-chronicles-3231","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2011\/06\/29\/2-chronicles-3231\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Chronicles 32:31"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;Howbeit, in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of<br \/>\n      Babylon, who sent unto him to enquire of the wonder that was<br \/>\n      done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know<br \/>\n      all that was in his heart.&#8221;<br \/>\n             &#8212; 2 Chronicles 32:31<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hezekiah was growing so inwardly great, and priding himself so much<br \/>\nupon the favour of God, that self-righteousness crept in, and through<br \/>\nhis carnal security, the grace of God was for a time, in its more<br \/>\nactive operations, withdrawn. Here is quite enough to account with the<br \/>\nBabylonians; for if the grace of God should leave the best Christian,<br \/>\nthere is enough of sin in his heart to make him the worst of<br \/>\ntransgressors. If left to yourselves, you who are warmest for Christ<br \/>\nwould cool down like Laodicea into sickening lukewarmness: you who are<br \/>\nsound in the faith would be white with the leprosy of false doctrine;<br \/>\nyou who now walk before the Lord in excellency and integrity would reel<br \/>\nto and fro, and stagger with a drunkenness of evil passion. Like the<br \/>\nmoon, we borrow our light; bright as we are when grace shines on us, we<br \/>\nare darkness itself when the Sun of Righteousness withdraws himself.<br \/>\nTherefore let us cry to God never to leave us. &#8220;Lord, take not thy Holy<br \/>\nSpirit from us! Withdraw not from us thine indwelling grace! Hast thou<br \/>\nnot said, &#8216;I the Lord do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest<br \/>\nany hurt it, I will keep it night and day&#8217;? Lord, keep us everywhere.<br \/>\nKeep us when in the valley, that we murmur not against thy humbling<br \/>\nhand; keep us when on the mountain, that we wax not giddy through being<br \/>\nlifted up; keep us in youth, when our passions are strong; keep us in<br \/>\nold age, when becoming conceited of our wisdom, we may therefore prove<br \/>\ngreater fools than the young and giddy; keep us when we come to die,<br \/>\nlest, at the very last, we should deny thee! Keep us living, keep us<br \/>\ndying, keep us labouring, keep us suffering, keep us fighting, keep us<br \/>\nresting, keep us everywhere, for everywhere we need thee, O our God!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Howbeit, in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to enquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.&#8221; &#8212; 2 Chronicles 32:31 Hezekiah was growing so inwardly great, and priding&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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-7571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7571","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}