{"id":948,"date":"2012-01-25T20:14:12","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T01:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/?p=948"},"modified":"2012-01-25T20:14:12","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T01:14:12","slug":"busy-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/2012\/01\/25\/busy-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Busy day?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>When you are oppressed with the weight of any duty or service in your calling, improve your trust in God&#8217;s power. Perhaps you find the duty of your calling too heavy for your weak shoulders: lay the heaviest end of your burden in God&#8217;s shoulder. When at any time you are sick of your work and ready with Jonah to run from it, encourage yourself with that which God said to Gideon; &#8216;Go in this your might&#8217;, has not God called you? &#8230; Such a bountiful heart your God has, that while you are asking for a little peace and joy, He bids you to open your mouth wide and He will fill it. Set your needs all before the Almighty. God has strength enough to give.<\/p>\n<p>William Gurnall, <em>The Christian in Complete Armor<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As quoted in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monergismbooks.com\/Voices-from-the-Past-Puritan-Devotional-Readings-p-18845.html\" target=\"_blank\">Voices from the Past<\/a>, Puritan Devotional Readings, edited by Richard Rushing<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you are oppressed with the weight of any duty or service in your calling, improve your trust in God&#8217;s power. Perhaps you find the duty of your calling too heavy for your weak shoulders: lay the heaviest end of your burden in God&#8217;s shoulder. When at any time you are sick of your work&hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"readmore-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/2012\/01\/25\/busy-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read <\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ive-been-reading"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1MnZf-fi","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":949,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions\/949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}