{"id":7365,"date":"2026-11-10T09:16:43","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T09:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=7365"},"modified":"2026-11-10T09:16:43","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T09:16:43","slug":"engraved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=7365","title":{"rendered":"Engraved!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Engraved!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(John MacDuff, 1874)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You are Mine now, and Mine forever!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFear not, for I have redeemed you. I have summoned you by name-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":[54,145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-john-macduff","category-atonement-substitution-propitiation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7365","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=7365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7366,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7365\/revisions\/7366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}