{"id":1570,"date":"2017-06-04T05:10:55","date_gmt":"2017-06-04T05:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=1570"},"modified":"2017-10-03T02:14:17","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T02:14:17","slug":"are-you-lonely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=1570","title":{"rendered":"Are You Lonely?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>I remember a particularly difficult and lonely time in my life. During that time I heard a preacher on the radio say; <em>Walking with God can be lonely,&#8230;..but it is a sweet loneliness.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>(To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.) O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother&#8217;s womb.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee. \u00a0Psalm 139:1 &#8211; 18<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember a particularly difficult and lonely time in my life. During that time I heard a preacher on the radio say; Walking with God can be lonely,&#8230;..but it is a sweet loneliness. (To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.) O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=1570\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Are You Lonely?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1570"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1677,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions\/1677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}