{"id":1561,"date":"2015-08-13T09:56:57","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T13:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/arms-that-welcome\/"},"modified":"2015-08-13T09:56:57","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T13:56:57","slug":"arms-that-welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/arms-that-welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Arms that welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Sister Nun Other<\/p>\n<p>I have a friend who considers the Bible the world&#8217;s greatest encyclopedia. She reads it in search of answers and is never disappointed! Recently, she told me of a verse, for her and me at least, newly discovered. That verse was Isaiah 50:10, which reads:\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\/736x\/05\/22\/20\/052220f2a06c54189607190a4d9e5f89.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"371\" height=\"371\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><span><i>Who among you fears the Lord and obeys the word of His servant? Let the one who walks in the dark, who has no light, trust in the name of the Lord.<\/i><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0This morning I woke up anxious, not quite sure of my way. Then words from an eighteenth century hymn writer, Joseph Hart, cut a path through my musings.\u00a0 He wrote,<strong>\u00a0<span><i>&#8220;Come, ye sinners, poor and needy, weak and wounded, sick and sore; Jesus ready stands to save you, full of pity, love and power.<\/i>&#8220;<\/span><\/strong> The hymn goes on to call the thirsty, weary, and heavy laden, and ends,\u00a0<strong><span><i>&#8220;All the fitness he requireth is to feel your need of Him.<\/i><\/span>&#8220;<\/strong> Essentially, it&#8217;s a parallel message to the one from Isaiah, both coming within a single week! For those of us who sometimes wander (and wonder), it&#8217;s a recommendation well-worth considering.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheCommunityOfJesus\/~4\/bqRHoIgxVbw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sister Nun Other I have a friend who considers the Bible the world&#8217;s greatest encyclopedia. She reads it in search of answers and is never disappointed! Recently, she told me of a verse, for her and me at least, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/arms-that-welcome\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paraclete-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}