{"id":517,"date":"2008-02-18T06:21:08","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T15:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=517"},"modified":"2008-02-18T06:24:03","modified_gmt":"2008-02-18T15:24:03","slug":"preserved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2008\/preserved\/","title":{"rendered":"Preserved"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=130 border=0 cellpadding=10 cellspacing=0 bgcolor=\"#003300\" align=right align=texttop>\n<tr>\n<td><b><font color=\"#339933\">Reading:<\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"#ffffff\">Psalm 121<\/font><br \/>\n<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Dangers all around.<\/p>\n<p>Rottenness lurking within.<\/p>\n<p>How shall I keep myself from all and every evil?<\/p>\n<p>How shall I be what I ought to be?<\/p>\n<p><b><font color=brown>&#8220;The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul&#8221;<\/font><\/b> (7).<\/p>\n<p>Oh, good!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/services\/music\/ss06-wearenotalone.mp3\">We Are Not Alone!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But surely I have a part to play and a life to live, no?<\/p>\n<p><b><font color=brown>&#8220;I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help&#8221;<\/font><\/b> (1).<\/p>\n<p>My life needs to be a Eyes Lifted Up to God life.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, my life needs to be God-focused.<\/p>\n<p>If my vision is downward and my hearing is downward and my thinking is downward, how shall my living be God-ward?<\/p>\n<p>And how shall the Lord preserve me?<\/p>\n<p>Lord, help me do what&#8217;s hard for me to do these days &#8212; look upward, to you.<\/p>\n<p>(And help me turn away from what pulls me downward.)<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/hethatkeepeth-b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/hethatkeepeth-s.jpg\" alt=\"[He that keepeth thee will not slumber (Psalm 121:3)]\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><i>from Psalm 121:3<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p><b>A little bit more from Psalm 121:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/cgi-bin\/webbbs\/lift\/lift.cgi?read=8373\"><font color=green>Oh, Yeah?<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading: Psalm 121 Dangers all around. Rottenness lurking within. How shall I keep myself from all and every evil? How shall I be what I ought to be? &#8220;The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul&#8221; (7). Oh, good! We Are Not Alone! But surely I have a part to [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-517","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-psalms","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry","9":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-8l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}