{"id":4827,"date":"2013-02-28T00:13:57","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T06:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=4827"},"modified":"2013-02-25T12:25:38","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T18:25:38","slug":"never-abandoned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=4827","title":{"rendered":"Never Abandoned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cWhen my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up\u201d (Psalm 27:10).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As we start to wrap up this week\u2019s devotionals, let&#8217;s look at the comments of Charles Spurgeon concerning today\u2019s verse.<em> When my father and my mother forsake me.<\/em> These dear relations will be the last to desert me, but if the milk of human kindness should dry up even from their breasts, there is a Father who never forgets. Some of the greatest of the saints have been cast out by their families, and persecuted for righteousness&#8217; sake. <em>Then the Lord will take me up.<\/em> Will espouse my cause, will uplift me from my woes, will carry me in his arms, will elevate me above my enemies, will at last receive me to his eternal dwelling place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What beautiful words of comfort and assurance!\u00a0 We don\u2019t ever have to feel forsaken or abandoned. We don\u2019t have to go through life alone.\u00a0 God\u2019s protective, restoring and caring hand will be there; we will never have to feel like an orphan.<\/p>\n<p>Sue Winchester<br \/>\nMissouri<\/p>\n<p><strong>PRAY TOGETHER: <\/strong>Think about modern-day orphans in your community. Is God calling you to step up and take an active role in their lives? Read James 1:27, then pray about how God would have you serve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up\u201d (Psalm 27:10). As we start to wrap up this week\u2019s devotionals, let&#8217;s look at the comments of Charles Spurgeon concerning today\u2019s verse. When my father &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=4827\">Continue reading <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-devotional"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4827"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4831,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4827\/revisions\/4831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}