{"id":3682,"date":"2013-04-24T11:32:53","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T11:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=3682"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:25:55","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:25:55","slug":"the-humbling-work-of-our-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=3682","title":{"rendered":"The Humbling Work Of Our God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Isaiah 40:15-17 and the theme of <strong>Isaiah&#8217;s Christ<\/strong>. We look today at <strong><em>the humbling work of our God<\/em><\/strong>. I find first of all that <strong><em>He humbles\u00a0us with His boldness<\/em><\/strong>. In verse 15 our Lord says all the nations which includes America is like a drop of dust in a bucket. In verse 17 He says all the nations which includes America are considered as nothing. A W Tozer\u00a0 said &#8220;when we realize our total and complete nothingness and that He is all we then step aside and make room for Him to be all.&#8221;. Martin Luther said &#8220;God makes all things from nothing and He refuses to make anything out of one who thinks he is something.&#8221; John Bunyan said &#8220;he who lives in the dust at Jesus\u00a0feet need never fear\u00a0a fall into temptation.&#8221; How humbled we are in the presence of our God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Isaiah 40:15-17 and the theme of Isaiah&#8217;s Christ. We look today at the humbling work of our God. I find first of all that He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-musings-from-the-motel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5434,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3682\/revisions\/5434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}