{"id":1674,"date":"2022-02-23T01:01:19","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T01:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/?p=1674"},"modified":"2022-02-21T19:04:05","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T19:04:05","slug":"his-brightness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/his-brightness\/","title":{"rendered":"His Brightness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Wednesday, February 23<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>His Brightness<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.<strong> Hebrews 1:3<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A line in one of the verses of the hymn, \u2018I will sing the wondrous story\u2019, speaks of \u2018days of darkness\u2019 that \u2018still come o\u2019er me. Sorrow\u2019s paths I often tread\u2019. There are times in this life where we will feel as if the Lord\u2019s face is hidden. In these moments, let today\u2019s verse come as light and encouragement.<\/p>\n<p>This verse is telling us that the vast universe which we live in, and everything in it, is literally held together by the authority and powerful word of Jesus, the Son of God. Unbelieving scientists may argue that it\u2019s the attraction of atomic particles that is responsible for doing that, but God\u2019s word assures us that Jesus is the One who is really holding everything together.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the amazing truth. If Jesus is holding the universe together, with its countless stars and galaxies, He is well able to hold our lives together too. He made that truth personal when He told His disciples, and us, not to worry about our lives. Our Heavenly Father even knows how many hairs are on our heads.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prayer for today<\/strong>: <em>Father, thank You for the way Your tender touch embraces and holds us in our times of joy and pain. Help us to turn in trust to You for healing and reminder of Your love. Amen<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, February 23 His Brightness Who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high. Hebrews 1:3 A line in one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1674"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1680,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674\/revisions\/1680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}