{"id":1299,"date":"2011-07-29T12:29:58","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T19:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/?p=1299"},"modified":"2024-03-26T12:36:10","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T19:36:10","slug":"bitter-and-sweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/2011\/07\/29\/bitter-and-sweet\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitter and Sweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A poem by John Newton:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Kindle, Saviour, in my heart,<br \/>\nA flame of love divine;<br \/>\nHear, for mine I trust thou art,<br \/>\nAnd sure I would be thine;<br \/>\nIf my soul has felt thy grace,<br \/>\nIf to me thy name is known;<br \/>\nWhy should trifles fill the place<br \/>\nDue to thyself alone?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">\u2018Tis a strange mysterious life<br \/>\nI live from day to day;<br \/>\nLight and darkness, peace and strife,<br \/>\nBear an alternate sway:<br \/>\nWhen I think the battle won,<br \/>\nI have to fight it o\u2019er again;<br \/>\nWhen I say I\u2019m overthrown,<br \/>\nRelief I soon obtain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Often at the mercy-seat,<br \/>\nWhile calling on thy name,<br \/>\nSwarms of evil thoughts I meet,<br \/>\nWhich fill my soul with shame.<br \/>\nAgitated in my mind,<br \/>\nLike a feather in the air,<br \/>\nCan I thus a blessing find?<br \/>\nMy soul, can this be pray\u2019r?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">But when Christ, my Lord and Friend,<br \/>\nIs pleas\u2019d to show his pow\u2019r<br \/>\nAll at once my troubles end,<br \/>\nAnd I\u2019ve a golden hour;<br \/>\nThen I see his smiling face,<br \/>\nFeel the pledge of joys to come:<br \/>\nOften, Lord, repeat this grace<br \/>\nTill thou shalt call me home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poem by John Newton: Kindle, Saviour, in my heart, A flame of love divine; Hear, for mine I trust thou art, And sure I would be thine; If my soul has felt thy grace, If to me thy name is known; Why should trifles fill the place Due to thyself alone? \u2018Tis a strange [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-misc","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9431,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions\/9431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}