{"id":4187,"date":"2021-07-10T14:03:14","date_gmt":"2021-07-10T14:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/?p=4187"},"modified":"2021-07-10T14:03:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-10T14:03:14","slug":"seeing-myself-from-all-angles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/?p=4187","title":{"rendered":"Seeing myself from all Angles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1 Lord, I appeal to you.<sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Psalm+25%3A1-3&amp;version=CSB#fen-CSB-14253a\">a<\/a>]<\/sup><br><sup>2\u00a0<\/sup>My God, I trust in you.<br>Do not let me be disgraced;<br>do not let my enemies gloat over me.<br><sup>3\u00a0<\/sup>No one who waits for you<br>will be disgraced;<br>those who act treacherously without cause<br>will be disgraced. (Psalm 25:1-3 CSB)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have been going through a new exercise of praying the Psalms. Due to the language it can sometimes feel like I am not connecting with the message. Until I actually take the time to read and pray over the words, turning them around, viewing myself in them from all angles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Like in today\u2019s scripture, there is much to be gleaned from praying these words. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I make my appeal to the God of heaven, considering my place in this relationship and His good will and grace. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I realize that I can be the primary source of my own disgrace. When I do wrong those who are just watching to see me stumble will be quick to point it out. Thus, I remember to pray for them as well and my capacity to be the same toward others.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If I wait, and do not speak or act rashly, I know God will honor this and, again, I will not be disgraced. I must look to myself and not act in a way that would cause me to be disgraced because I am as capable as any other. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If we dig into the words and the language and turn the scripture both outwardly and inwardly we can gain much from only a few lines when seen from every angle. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 Lord, I appeal to you.[a]2\u00a0My God, I trust in you.Do not let me be disgraced;do not let my enemies gloat over me.3\u00a0No one who waits for youwill be disgraced;those who act treacherously without causewill be disgraced. (Psalm 25:1-3 CSB) I have been going through a new exercise of praying the Psalms. Due to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4188,"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187\/revisions\/4188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}