{"id":946,"date":"2015-01-03T09:01:05","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T14:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/january-3-echoes-of-eternityif-thou-lord-shouldest-mark-iniquities-o-lord-w\/"},"modified":"2015-01-03T09:01:05","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T14:01:05","slug":"january-3-echoes-of-eternityif-thou-lord-shouldest-mark-iniquities-o-lord-w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/january-3-echoes-of-eternityif-thou-lord-shouldest-mark-iniquities-o-lord-w\/","title":{"rendered":"January 3 Echoes of Eternity\nIf Thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, w&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January 3 Echoes of Eternity<br \/> If Thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? But there is forgiveness with Thee, that Thou mayest be feared.<br \/> Psalm 130:3,4 (rsv)<br \/> Your fear of being wrong, My child, shows that you are not living by grace, but by \u201cworks.\u201d This is not a minor fault, but a major block in our relationship and in your spiritual growth. Go and read again Brother Lawrence\u2019s testimony\u2014and let your heart absorb the truth of it.<br \/> Worry about what others may think of you, how they react to you, puts an obstacle between you and Me. No matter how pious you may appear to others, I see your heart, and I tell you again: your fear of being wrong shows that you are not living by grace. Your soul is filled with accusations against My goodness. Otherwise, there would be only a desire to please Me out of gratitude, not out of fear.<\/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>January 3 Echoes of Eternity If Thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? But there is forgiveness with Thee, that Thou mayest be feared. Psalm 130:3,4 (rsv) Your fear of being wrong, My child, shows that you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/january-3-echoes-of-eternityif-thou-lord-shouldest-mark-iniquities-o-lord-w\/\">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-946","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\/946","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=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}