{"id":11393,"date":"2023-01-29T21:12:53","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T21:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=11393"},"modified":"2023-05-17T07:11:13","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T07:11:13","slug":"january-30-morning-devotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2023\/01\/january-30-morning-devotion\/","title":{"rendered":"January 30\u2014Morning Devotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"large\">&#8220;That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace, in his kindness towards us through Christ Jesus.&#8221;\u2014Ephesians 2:7<\/p>\n<p class=\"drop-cap\">Pause, my soul, and gather in all the powers of arithmetic, and try if thou art able to count what the exceeding riches of God&#8217;s grace amount to. Think how great, how free, how sovereign, how inexhaustible, how everlasting! All that a poor sinner hath in time, all that we can enjoy to all eternity, all is of grace. And what a title hath thy God chosen to be known by among his people, when, to make himself known more fully in Jesus, he styles himself &#8220;the God of all grace!&#8221; All grace? Yes, all grace, and all sorts and degrees of grace: pardoning grace, renewing grace, quickening grace, strengthening grace, comforting grace; in short, all grace. And is all this treasured up in Jesus? Oh then, my soul, see that Jesus be thine, and all is thine. And mark this down as a sure unerring rule-as grace hath no source but in the Father&#8217;s love, so the exalting that grace, in Jesus is the Father&#8217;s design in salvation. The brightest pearl in the Redeemer&#8217;s crown is that which shines with this inscription: &#8220;To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. &#8220;Here, my soul, seek thy daily grace more earnestly than thy daily bread.<\/p>\n<div class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"11393\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"1\" style=\"box-shadow:none;-webkit-box-shadow:none;-moz-box-shadow:none;\"><div class=\"bookmark-off\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace, in his kindness towards us through Christ Jesus.&#8221;\u2014Ephesians 2:7 Pause, my soul, and gather in all the powers of arithmetic, and try if thou art able to count what the exceeding riches of God&#8217;s grace amount to. Think how great, how free, how sovereign, how inexhaustible, how everlasting! All that a poor sinner hath in time, all that we can enjoy to all eternity, all is of grace. And what a title hath thy God chosen to be known by among his people, when, to make himself known more fully in Jesus, he styles himself &#8220;the God of all grace!&#8221; All grace? Yes, all grace, and all sorts and degrees of grace: pardoning grace, renewing grace, quickening grace, strengthening grace, comforting grace; in short, all grace. And is all this treasured up in Jesus? Oh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":12743,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1078],"tags":[1239],"class_list":["post-11393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-robert-hawkers-poor-mans-morning-portions","tag-sovereign-grace"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11393"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16291,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11393\/revisions\/16291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}