{"id":3069,"date":"2016-01-30T11:41:08","date_gmt":"2016-01-30T16:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=3069"},"modified":"2016-01-30T11:45:16","modified_gmt":"2016-01-30T16:45:16","slug":"dismal-theology-related-tweet-for-the-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=3069","title":{"rendered":"Dismal theology-related tweet for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Four short verses to pray as you open God\u2019s word. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PVB49bpGdA\">https:\/\/t.co\/PVB49bpGdA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Desiring God (@desiringGod) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/desiringGod\/status\/693464441807990784\">January 30, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t have ordinarily followed the link in a tweet like that but, <i>Hey!<\/i>, this is John Piper&#8217;s outfit, and Piper has overtaken Tullian Tchividjian as the go-to guy when you need to be reminded that you&#8217;re no damn good.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>2. Luke 18:38: Have Mercy on Me<\/p>\n<p>Pray, like the blind man begging roadside, \u201cJesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!\u201d For as long as we are in this life, <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">sin encumbers every encounter with God<\/span> in his word. We <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">fail friends and family daily \u2014 and even more, we fail God<\/span>. So it is fitting to accompany our opening of God\u2019s word with the humble, broken, poor plea of the redeemed: \u201cGod, be merciful to me, a sinner!\u201d (Luke 18:13).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There you go: You fail everybody every day.  Even worse than failing your family and friends, you fail &#8230; You. Know. Who.<\/p>\n<p>Never forget: You are lower than whale flop, your very existence is an offense against the Cosmos, you are an inexhaustible sink of putrescence.  You are no damn good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four short verses to pray as you open God\u2019s word. https:\/\/t.co\/PVB49bpGdA &mdash; Desiring God (@desiringGod) January 30, 2016 I wouldn&#8217;t have ordinarily followed the link in a tweet like that but, Hey!, this is John Piper&#8217;s outfit, and Piper has &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=3069\">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":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3069"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3069"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3072,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3069\/revisions\/3072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}