{"id":2357,"date":"2023-01-07T01:26:46","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T01:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/?p=2357"},"modified":"2023-01-06T22:27:07","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T22:27:07","slug":"seven-days-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/seven-days-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Days Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>January 7-8<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Seven Days Down<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Lead me in the right path, O Lord, or my enemies will conquer me. Make your way plain for me to follow.<\/em><strong> Psalm 5:8<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today marks seven days into the New Year with just three hundred and sixty-one left to go. But whatever the days ahead bring, we can regularly repeat this heart-felt request written in Psalm 5:8; \u201c<em>Lead me in the right path, O Lord<\/em>.\u201d It will never fall on deaf ears.<\/p>\n<p>As I pondered on these verses, I thought also about the prayer the Lord taught us, and which we repeat so regularly: \u2018<em>Lead us, not into temptation but deliver us from the evil one\u2019<\/em> (Matthew 6:13). Jesus, in His total understanding of our human frailty, recognized that we would find all trails, testing and temptation very hard, so He warned us to add to our prayer for God\u2019s leading, an addendum; \u201cSave us, Lord, from situations in which we might fall into the traps of the enemy\u2019s temptations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So, as we each walk forward into whatever this New Year brings, let\u2019s keep our hearts open for His response to our prayer, \u201cLead us, Lord.\u201d His words in Scripture will help us, and will light the way. Psalm 119:105 says \u2018<em>Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path<\/em>.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 7-8 Seven Days Down Lead me in the right path, O Lord, or my enemies will conquer me. Make your way plain for me to follow. Psalm 5:8 Today marks seven days into the New Year with just three hundred and sixty-one left to go. But whatever the days ahead bring, we can regularly [&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-2357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357","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=2357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2358,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357\/revisions\/2358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}