{"id":5431,"date":"2021-01-06T05:25:05","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T11:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nazareneblogs.org\/pastorscott\/?p=5431"},"modified":"2021-01-06T05:25:05","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T11:25:05","slug":"devotional-on-isaiah-152","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/devotional-on-isaiah-152\/","title":{"rendered":"Devotional on Isaiah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-gJ1uIkMO3fU\/X_S2mADvvfI\/AAAAAAABII8\/5vzhxkRCUP4GF05UrLm1AGC1eEYsmCPaACPcBGAsYHg\/s1280\/P9062265.JPG\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" class=\"size-large\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><center>2007 &#8211; Along the trail to Dream Lake, Rocky Mt Natl Park<\/center><\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nBuried in the deepest sea, yes, that\u2019s good enough for me<br \/>\nIsaiah 44: I&#8217;ve wiped the slate of all your wrongdoings. There&#8217;s nothing left of your sins.<br \/>\nAs I read these words an old Sunday School chorus comes to mind: &#8220;Gone, gone, gone, gone, yes my sins are gone.&#8221;  As a Sunday School kid to me that was mainly just a catchy tune, although I know that it\u2019s important to &#8220;train up a child in the way he should go&#8230;.&#8221;  The message here is mainly for grownups, especially for those who are troubled by the mess they\u2019ve made of their lives.  They look at their lives and see a disaster that can, in their view, never be cleaned up.  You may have things in your past that are so ugly that you seldom allow yourself to remember them, and when you do, you\u2019re filled with shame.  Or there may be things that everyone knows about: broken promises, failures, and destroyed relationships.  The words of Isaiah are so filled with hope that our hearts cannot hold it all.  The only One who can deal with the mess that is our lives has already acted to do just that.  He cries out, &#8220;Come back to me, come back. I&#8217;ve redeemed you.&#8221;  As I respond to that invitation, the words of the old chorus become mine&#8230;&#8221;gone, gone, gone, gone, yes my sins are gone.&#8221;<br \/>\nTake Away: God is the God of Second Chances<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buried in the deepest sea, yes, that\u2019s good enough for me Isaiah 44: I&#8217;ve wiped the slate of all your wrongdoings. There&#8217;s nothing left of your sins. As I read these words an old Sunday School chorus comes to mind: &#8220;Gone, gone, gone, gone, yes my sins are gone.&#8221; As a Sunday School kid to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1502,7],"tags":[131,564,894,920,958,996],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5431"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5431"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15005,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5431\/revisions\/15005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}