{"id":2810,"date":"2024-01-25T23:03:08","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T23:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2810"},"modified":"2024-01-25T23:03:13","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T23:03:13","slug":"evensong-105","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2810","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 105"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/PSX_20240125_142118-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2809\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/PSX_20240125_142118-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/PSX_20240125_142118-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/PSX_20240125_142118.jpg 356w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRegard Him not as a puny God,\u201d writes the Rev. Charles Spurgeon in reference to this psalm, \u201cbut look to His omnipotence and seek to know the power of His grace.\u201d What does that mean?<br><br>Spurgeon\u2019s commentary, which I generally ignore, is full of religious platitudes and assumptions that support only one interpretation of scriptures \u2014 a fundamentalist Christian view of the world.<br><br>When the psalmist says, \u201cMake known His deeds among the peoples,\u201d he then lists what he and Spurgeon, too, see as good deeds \u2014 the famines, the pestilences, the plagues for Israel\u2019s sake.<br><br>But I try to see other sides as well \u2014 of the poor folks who died in the floods, or from swarms of flies, lice and locusts, or from the fatal misfortune of being the oldest child in an Egyptian family.<br><br>As the old saying goes, God (or YHWH or Mother Nature or the iSoul) may be good all the time, but at the very same time God is bad and everything in between, depending on the perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cRegard Him not as a puny God,\u201d writes the Rev. Charles Spurgeon in reference to this psalm, \u201cbut look to His omnipotence and seek to know the power of His grace.\u201d What does that mean? Spurgeon\u2019s commentary, which I generally ignore, is full of religious platitudes and assumptions that support only one interpretation of scriptures &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2810\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EVENSONG 105<\/span><\/a><\/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-2810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2811,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2810\/revisions\/2811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}