{"id":6297,"date":"2022-10-24T10:22:50","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T10:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=6297"},"modified":"2022-10-24T10:22:50","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T10:22:50","slug":"%ef%bb%bflose-yourself-in-the-impenetrable-tracts-of-his-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=6297","title":{"rendered":"\ufeffLose yourself in the impenetrable tracts of His Glory!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Lose yourself in the impenetrable tracts of His Glory!<\/strong><br><br>(<a href=\"http:\/\/gracegems.org\/17\/Macduff.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">John MacDuff<\/a>, \u201cThe Night Watches\u201d)<br><br>\u201cBefore the mountains were brought forth,<br>or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world,<br>even from everlasting to everlasting, thou&nbsp;<em>art<\/em>&nbsp;God\u201d&nbsp;Psalm 90:2<br><br>O my soul! Seek to fill yourself with thoughts of the Almighty.&nbsp;<strong>Lose yourself in the impenetrable tracts of His Glory!<\/strong><br><br><em>\u201cCan you by searching find out God?\u201d<\/em>Can the&nbsp;<em>insect&nbsp;<\/em>fathom the ocean?<br>Can the&nbsp;<em>worm&nbsp;<\/em>scale the skies?<br>Can the&nbsp;<em>finite&nbsp;<\/em>comprehend the Infinite?<br>Can the&nbsp;<em>mortal&nbsp;<\/em>grasp Immortality?<br>We can do no more than stand on the&nbsp;<em>brink&nbsp;<\/em>of the shoreless sea, and cry,<em>&nbsp;\u201cOh the depth!\u201d<\/em><br><br><em>\u201cFrom&nbsp;<\/em><em>everlasting to everlasting, You are God!\u201d<\/em><em>S<\/em>hrouded in the great and amazing mystery of eternity,<br>before one star revolved in its sphere,<br>before one angel moved his wing \u2014&nbsp;<em>God was!<\/em><br>His own infinite presence filling all&nbsp;<em>space<\/em>. All&nbsp;<em>time<\/em>, to Him, is but as the heaving of a breath \u2014 the beat of a pulse \u2014 the twinkling of an eye! He was as infinitely glorious when He inhabited the solitudes of immensity alone \u2014 as He is now with the songs of angel and archangel sounding in His ear!<br><br>This is the Being to whom I can look up with sweetest confidence, and call&nbsp;<em>\u201cMy Father!\u201d<\/em>This is the Infinite One, whom \u201cthe Heaven of Heavens cannot contain,\u201d whom I call&nbsp;<em>\u201cMy God!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFor this God&nbsp;<em>is<\/em>&nbsp;our God for ever and ever:<br>he will be our guide&nbsp;<em>even<\/em>&nbsp;unto death.\u201d Psalm 48:14<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lose yourself in the impenetrable tracts of His Glory! (John MacDuff, \u201cThe Night Watches\u201d) \u201cBefore the mountains were brought forth,or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world,even from everlasting to everlasting, thou&nbsp;art&nbsp;God\u201d&nbsp;Psalm 90:2 O my soul! Seek to fill yourself with thoughts of the Almighty.&nbsp;Lose yourself in the impenetrable tracts of His Glory! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,68,115,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-john-macduff","category-christ-his-person-and-excellencies","category-eternal-covenant-promise-of-god","category-sovereignty-of-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6297","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=6297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6298,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6297\/revisions\/6298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}