{"id":3233,"date":"2010-12-04T22:45:16","date_gmt":"2010-12-05T02:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/?p=3233"},"modified":"2010-12-04T22:45:16","modified_gmt":"2010-12-05T02:45:16","slug":"psalm-131-in-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/?p=3233","title":{"rendered":"Psalm 131- In the season-"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>Psalm 131<\/h6>\n<p><b>A song of ascents. Of David.<\/b> <\/p>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup> My heart is not proud, LORD, <br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp; my eyes are not haughty; <br \/>I do not concern myself with great matters <br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp; or things too wonderful for me. <br \/><sup>2<\/sup> But I have calmed and quieted myself, <br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp; I am like a weaned child with its mother; <br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp; like a weaned child I am content.  <\/p>\n<p><sup>3<\/sup> Israel, put your hope in the LORD <br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp; both now and forevermore.  <\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/versions\/New-International-Version-NIV-Bible\/\">New International Version, \u00a92010<\/a> (NIV)<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Advent is marked by a spirit of expectation, of anticipation, of preparation, of longing.&nbsp; It is a season of hope. <\/p>\n<p><em>I am humbling my heart and expectations.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><em>Keeping my eyes on Jesus.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><em>Looking at the sins of my heart and repenting of them.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><em>Preparing my life for the Hope to appear.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><em>Because He came as a baby-lived to be a man- sacrificed Himself to pay the debt of sin- and He is coming again.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;&#8230;put your hope in the LORD<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><em>both now and forevermore.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psalm 131 A song of ascents. Of David. 1 My heart is not proud, LORD, &nbsp;&nbsp; my eyes are not haughty; I do not concern myself with great matters &nbsp;&nbsp; or things too wonderful for me. 2 But I have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/?p=3233\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritualinsights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}