{"id":5986,"date":"2021-03-22T09:51:59","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T09:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=5986"},"modified":"2021-03-22T09:51:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T09:51:59","slug":"%ef%bb%bfblundering-stumbling-on-in-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=5986","title":{"rendered":"\ufeffBlundering &#038; stumbling on in darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Blundering &amp; stumbling on in darkness<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>J.C.Philpot<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the Lord has quickened our souls, for a time we often go blundering on, not knowing there is a Jesus. We think that the way of life is to keep God\u2019s commandments\u2014obey the law\u2014cleanse ourselves from sin\u2014reform our lives\u2014cultivate universal holiness in thought, word, and action\u2014and so we go\u2014blundering and stumbling on in darkness\u2014and all the while never get a single step forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But when the Lord has allowed us to weary ourselves to find the door, and let us sink lower and lower into the pit of guilt and ruin, from feeling that all our attempts to extricate ourselves have only plunged us deeper and deeper\u2014and when the Spirit of God opens up to the understanding and brings into the soul some spiritual discovery of Jesus, and thus makes known that there is a Savior, a Mediator, and a way of escape\u2014this is the grand turning point in our lives, the first opening in the valley of Achor (trouble), of the door of hope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cIn the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the Seraphim: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory. And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips; and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.\u201d Isaiah 6:1-5<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blundering &amp; stumbling on in darkness J.C.Philpot After the Lord has quickened our souls, for a time we often go blundering on, not knowing there is a Jesus. We think that the way of life is to keep God\u2019s commandments\u2014obey the law\u2014cleanse ourselves from sin\u2014reform our lives\u2014cultivate universal holiness in thought, word, and action\u2014and so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,71,18,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-j-c-philpot","category-believers-rule-of-life","category-grace","category-spiritual-inability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5986","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=5986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5987,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5986\/revisions\/5987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}