{"id":5709,"date":"2020-04-26T08:56:25","date_gmt":"2020-04-26T08:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=5709"},"modified":"2020-04-26T08:56:25","modified_gmt":"2020-04-26T08:56:25","slug":"a-fathers-eye-beaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=5709","title":{"rendered":"A FATHER\u2019S eye beaming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Behold, the eye of the Lord is upon those who fear him, upon those who hope in his mercy; To deliver their soul from death. Psalm 33:18-19<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Octavius Winslow<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A FATHER\u2019S eye beaming with tenderness upon a rebellious, wandering child, inviting, welcoming his return\u2014what adamant can resist it? The deepest, bitterest, truest grief for sin is felt and expressed beneath God\u2019s eye alone. When the wakeful pillow of midnight is moistened, when the heart unveils in secret to the eye of Jesus, when the chamber of privacy witnesses to the confidential confessions and pleadings of a contrite heart, there is then felt and expressed a sorrow for sin, so genuine, so touching, as cannot but draw down upon the soul a look from Christ the most tender in its expression, and the most forgiving in its language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us always endeavour to realize the loving eye of Jesus resting upon us. In public and in private, in our temporal and spiritual callings, in prosperity and in adversity, in all places and on all occasions, and under all circumstances, oh! let us live as beneath its focal power. When our Lord was upon earth, \u201ca man of sorrows,\u201d His eyes were dim with grief; but now that He is in heaven, they are as \u201ca flame of fire,\u201d\u2014to His saints not a burning, consuming flame, but a flame of inextinguishable love. Deem not yourself, then, secluded believer, a banished and an exiled one, lost to all sight. Other eyes may be withdrawn and closed, distance intercepting their view, or death darkening their vision; but the eye of Jesus, your Lord, rests upon you ever, with unslumbering affection. \u201cI will guide you with mine eye,\u201d is the gracious promise of your God. Be ever and intently gazing on that Eye\u2014\u201dlooking unto Jesus.\u201d He is the Fountain of Light; and in the light radiating from His eye you shall, in the gloomiest hour of your life, see light upon your onward way. \u201cBy His light I walked through darkness.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBend not your light-desiring eyes below,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There your own shadow waits upon you ever;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But raise your looks to Heaven\u2014and lo!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The shadeless sun rewards your weak endeavour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who sees the dark, is dark; but turns toward the light,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And you become like to that which fills your sight.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe all, with open face, beholding, as in a glass , the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Behold, the eye of the Lord is upon those who fear him, upon those who hope in his mercy; To deliver their soul from death. Psalm 33:18-19 Octavius Winslow A FATHER\u2019S eye beaming with tenderness upon a rebellious, wandering child, inviting, welcoming his return\u2014what adamant can resist it? The deepest, bitterest, truest grief for sin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-octavius-winslow","category-gods-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5709","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=5709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5710,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5709\/revisions\/5710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}