{"id":88,"date":"2007-07-25T21:34:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-26T02:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.livingbythewordsofgod.com\/?p=88"},"modified":"2007-07-25T21:34:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-26T02:34:00","slug":"my-heart-cant-stand-the-pain-my-eyes-cant-see-the-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;My heart can&#8217;t stand the pain; my eyes can&#8217;t see the right.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow!\u00a0 I was getting ready to say how I had written those words several years ago.\u00a0 Yeah, right, several years ago.\u00a0 How about around thirty years ago?<\/p>\n<p>One of the first songs I wrote:\u00a0 <strong>&#8220;I&#8217;ll Run Back to My King&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When I see my fellow man, on a journey through this life,<br \/>\nWhen I see the sin, the misery, the strife,<br \/>\nWhen I see a brother&#8217;s outstretched hand, crushed in flight,<br \/>\n<strong>My heart can&#8217;t stand the pain, and my eyes can&#8217;t see the right,<\/strong><br \/>\nI&#8217;ll run back to my Lord, I&#8217;ll run back to my King, I&#8217;ll run back to my Savior,<br \/>\nAnd my heart and soul I&#8217;ll bring.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And for all of my inconsistencies, and my sinfulness, I still can&#8217;t stand to see the pain of life in another person&#8217;s eyes.<\/p>\n<p>This drives me on, but can you imagine the pain of heart the Perfect One experienced.\u00a0 If I, being a converted rebel and enemy of God, one who ran to sin and not away from it, if I can feel the pain of this world to a degree that I am compelled to bow before God and offer my self to help. . .<\/p>\n<p>Can you imagine the deep pain the Perfect One, the ultimate Person of compassion felt?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>(Matthew 23:37 MSG)\u00a0 &#8220;Jerusalem! Jerusalem! Murderer of prophets! Killer of the ones who brought you God&#8217;s news! How often I&#8217;ve ached to embrace your children, the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you wouldn&#8217;t let me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow!\u00a0 I was getting ready to say how I had written those words several years ago.\u00a0 Yeah, right, several years ago.\u00a0 How about around thirty years ago? One of the first songs I wrote:\u00a0 &#8220;I&#8217;ll Run Back to My King&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/?p=88\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-spirituality-religion-truth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3dxA8-1q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}