{"id":7339,"date":"2026-10-22T22:47:51","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T22:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=7339"},"modified":"2026-10-22T22:49:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T22:49:58","slug":"7339","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=7339","title":{"rendered":"Engraved!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Engraved!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(John MacDuff, 1874)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201c<\/strong><strong>Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of&nbsp;<em>my<\/em>&nbsp;hands;<\/strong><strong>\u201d Isaiah 49:15-16<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBehold,\u201d says infinite God, \u201cI have engraved you on the palms of My hands!\u201d<br>Not on the&nbsp;<em>mountains<\/em>, as colossal as they are, for they shall depart;<br>not on any page of nature\u2019s vast volume, for the last fires shall scorch them;<br>not on blazing sun, for it shall grow dim with age;<br>not on glorious heavens, for they shall be folded together as a scroll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But on . . .<br>&nbsp; the hand which made the worlds,<br>&nbsp; the hand which was transfixed on the cruel cross,<br>&nbsp; the hand of infinite might and unmeasurable love;<br>I have engraved you there! No corroding power can efface the writing, or obliterate your name!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You are Mine now, and Mine forever!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFear not, for I have redeemed you. I have summoned you by name \u2013 you are Mine!\u201d Isaiah 43:1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engraved! (John MacDuff, 1874) \u201cCan a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of&nbsp;my&nbsp;hands;\u201d Isaiah 49:15-16 \u201cBehold,\u201d says infinite God, \u201cI have engraved you on the palms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-john-macduff","category-eternal-covenant-promise-of-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7339","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=7339"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7343,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7339\/revisions\/7343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}