{"id":1077,"date":"2025-05-21T06:31:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T06:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/?p=1077"},"modified":"2025-05-15T10:32:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T10:32:30","slug":"21st-may-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/?p=1077","title":{"rendered":"21st May 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Meditation Verse: Psalm 73 \u201cGod remains the strength of my heart.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reading the whole Psalm is interesting as it could have been written about our current world situation where the wicked seemingly prosper and the poorest suffer in various situations.&nbsp; The writer loses heart but is sustained by God\u2019s strength. &nbsp;Halfway through the Psalm after spending time in God\u2019s sanctuary the following is revealed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong><sup>16&nbsp;<\/sup><\/strong>But when I thought how to understand this,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;it seemed to me a wearisome task,<br><strong><sup>17&nbsp;<\/sup><\/strong>until I went into the sanctuary of God;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;then I perceived their end.<br><strong><sup>18&nbsp;<\/sup><\/strong>Truly you set them in slippery places;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;you make them fall to ruin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m not one for vengeance but it\u2019s good to know that God hears our cries for justice even when our hearts may lack the faith to believe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We regularly pray for peace in a variety of situations, but do we truly believe it is possible?&nbsp; Take heart this week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meditation Verse: Psalm 73 \u201cGod remains the strength of my heart.\u201d Reading the whole Psalm is interesting as it could<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1078,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions\/1078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}