{"id":6098,"date":"2017-08-14T10:22:42","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T14:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/?post_type=oyb&#038;p=6098"},"modified":"2017-08-14T10:25:59","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T14:25:59","slug":"let-your-mercy-o-lord-be-upon-us-just-as-we-hope-in-you-psalm-3322-nkjv","status":"publish","type":"oyb","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/let-your-mercy-o-lord-be-upon-us-just-as-we-hope-in-you-psalm-3322-nkjv","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Let Your mercy, O Lord, be upon us, just as we hope in You&#8221; (Psalm 33:22 NKJV)."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The psalmist asks the Lord to be merciful towards His people according to the proportion of their hope in Him. This is not a request for God&#8217;s mercy according to their works, not according to righteousness, nor lack thereof, but according to the measure of the hope they have placed in God. The psalmist&#8217;s scale is for the Lord to give them mercy in proportion to their hope. Yet, I would ask for more. I would ask that the Lord show mercy even when (and especially when) my hope is weak. And I ask that His mercy would &#8220;be upon us&#8221; for others when their hope needs encouragement too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The psalmist asks the Lord to be merciful towards His people according to the proportion of their hope in Him. This is not a request for God&#8217;s mercy according to their works, not according to righteousness, nor lack thereof, but according to the measure of the hope they have placed in God. The psalmist&#8217;s scale is for the Lord to give them mercy in proportion to their hope. Yet, I would ask for more. I would ask that the Lord show mercy even when (and especially when) my hope is weak. And I ask that His mercy would &#8220;be upon us&#8221; for others when their hope needs encouragement too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"scripture-book":[1286],"scripture-chapter":[1366],"oyb_day":[1753],"location":[],"class_list":["post-6098","oyb","type-oyb","status-publish","hentry","scripture-book-psalms","scripture-chapter-1366","oyb_day-august-14"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb\/6098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/oyb"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6098"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-book?post=6098"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-chapter?post=6098"},{"taxonomy":"oyb_day","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb_day?post=6098"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=6098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}