A reading of Anglican priest Robert Hawker’s (1753\u20131827) morning devotional writings from “The Poor Man’s Morning and Evening Portion” for January 16th.<\/p>\n
Music: \u201cRed-tailed Hawk<\/a>\u201d by Chad Crouch<\/a>; modified under CC BY-NC 4.0<\/a>.<\/p>\n MORNING \u201c And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, that God had prepared the people; for the thing was done suddenly.\u201d 2 Chron. 29:36<\/span><\/p>\n Sweet thought, ever to keep in view, that it is the Lord that prepares the heart, and gives answers to the tongue. And Oh! how sudden, how unexpected, how unlooked-for, sometimes, are the visits of his grace!\u00a0<\/span>\u201cOr ever I was aware (saith the church) my soul made me like the chariots of Amminadab.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>Is my heart cold, my mind barren, my frame lifeless! Do thou, then, dearest Lord, make me to rejoice, in warming my frozen affection, making fruitful my poor estate, and putting new life into my soul. All I want is a frame of mind best suited to thy glory. And what is that? Truly, that when I have nothing, feel no thing, can do nothing, am worse than nothing, that then, even then, I may be rich in thee amidst all my own bankruptcy. This, dear Lord, is what I covet. And if thou withholdest all frames which might melt, or warm, or rejoice my own feelings; yet if my soul still hangs upon thee notwithstanding all, as the vessel upon the nail, my God and Jesus will be my rock, that feels nothing of the ebbings and flowings of the sea around, Whatever be the tide of my fluctuating affections.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A reading of Anglican priest Robert Hawker’s (1753\u20131827) morning devotional writings from “The Poor Man’s Morning and Evening Portion” for January 16th. Music: \u201cRed-tailed Hawk\u201d by Chad Crouch; modified under CC BY-NC 4.0. MORNING \u201c And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, that God had prepared the people; for the thing was done suddenly.\u201d 2…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"tve_updated_post":"","tve_custom_css":"","tve_user_custom_css":"","tve_globals":{},"tcb2_ready":1,"tcb_editor_enabled":0,"tve_landing_page":"","_tve_header":"","_tve_footer":""},"categories":[679],"tags":[680],"class_list":["post-12102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-poor-mans-morning-portion-podcast","tag-devotional","post_format-post-format-audio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/TPMMP-Post_Image_800HX500H.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12102"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12128,"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12102\/revisions\/12128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}