A reading of Anglican priest Robert Hawker’s (1753\u20131827) morning devotional writings from “The Poor Man’s Morning and Evening Portion.”<\/p>\n
The music for this reading is \u201cCooper’s Hawk<\/a>\u201d by Chad Crouch<\/a> and was adapted for length under a Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC 4.0)<\/a>.<\/p>\n “And the Lord shut him in.\u201d\u2014Gen. 7:16<\/span><\/p>\n It was a sweet invitation to the patriarch Noah, when the Lord called him to the ark. Jehovah did not say, Go thou into the ark; but \u201cCome.\u201d So saith Jesus to his people: \u201cCome with me, from Lebanon, my spouse; with me, from Lebanon.\u201d Yes, precious Jesus, to be with thee is heaven; for thou thyself art the heaven of the soul. But observe further, my soul: when Noah had entered the ark, what kept him there? \u201cThe Lord shut him in.\u201d Yes, neither bolts nor bars were his security; but God himself, in his covenant engagements, kept him. The patriarch could no more get out, than the unbelieving carnal throng (who perhaps hung about the ark when they saw the flood arise, and felt its power) could get in. Precious Jesus! and what is it keeps thy people now? Is it not thyself? Are not thy redeemed eternally secure in thee, and thy blood and righteousness, as Noah in the ark? Yes, thou who hast the key of all things; \u201cthou openest, and none shutteth; thou shuttest, and none openeth.\u201d In thee my soul is kept secure; for the Lord Jehovah hath shut me in; and I shall ride out all the storms, and floods, of sin and Satan; and Noah-like, rise above the fountains of the greatest deeps, being shut in the ark Christ Jesus.<\/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.” The music for this reading is \u201cCooper’s Hawk\u201d by Chad Crouch and was adapted for length under a Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC 4.0). “And the Lord shut him in.\u201d\u2014Gen. 7:16 It was a sweet invitation…<\/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-12358","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\/12358","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=12358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12359,"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12358\/revisions\/12359"}],"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=12358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}