{"id":2995,"date":"2014-09-20T07:55:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-20T07:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=2995"},"modified":"2014-09-20T07:56:16","modified_gmt":"2014-09-20T07:56:16","slug":"the-sum-total-of-my-experience-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=2995","title":{"rendered":"The sum total of my experience is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<em>The following is an excerpt from the\u00a0<strong>diary <\/strong>of James Smith<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>March 27, 1861.<br \/>\nJesus is precious \u2014 very precious, to my soul. I\u00a0<em>love <\/em>Him,\u00a0<em>rest <\/em>in Him,\u00a0<em>preach <\/em>Him, and wish that I could\u00a0<em>exalt <\/em>Him a thousand times higher than I do!<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nThe sum total of my experience is:<\/strong> I am nothing \u2014 but Christ is all! I am sin \u2014 and Christ is my salvation.<\/p>\n<p>No one ever\u00a0<em>needed <\/em>Jesus more, no one will be under greater\u00a0<em>obligations <\/em>to Him, than I am. I am never so happy as when I am alone, thinking of Him, reading of Him, or writing about Him \u2014 unless it be sometimes, when I am preaching about Him, assisted by His ever blessed Spirit.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus is mine \u2014 and I am His. I think I may go even further than this, and say as the spouse did, \u201cI am my Beloved\u2019s \u2014 and His desire is toward me.\u201d O to honor His dear name more! O to glorify Him on earth, until He glorifies me with Himself, in Heaven!\u00a0<em>Anything for Jesus! Anywhere with Jesus! <\/em>Thus my soul cries,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo not I love you, dearest Lord,<br \/>\nBehold my heart and see;<br \/>\nAnd turn each cursed idol out,<br \/>\nThat dares to rival Thee!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(The following is an excerpt from the\u00a0diary of James Smith) March 27, 1861. Jesus is precious \u2014 very precious, to my soul. I\u00a0love Him,\u00a0rest in Him,\u00a0preach Him, and wish that I could\u00a0exalt Him a thousand times higher than I do! The sum total of my experience is: I am nothing \u2014 but Christ is all! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-james-smith","category-christ-his-person-and-excellencies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2995"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2997,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2995\/revisions\/2997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}