{"id":1613,"date":"2009-12-04T09:13:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T09:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/2009\/12\/thoughts-on-the-loth-for-today-4\/"},"modified":"2017-01-24T19:16:43","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T00:16:43","slug":"thoughts-on-the-loth-for-today-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/2009\/12\/thoughts-on-the-loth-for-today-4.html","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on the LOTH for Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a style=\"text-align: center;\" href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_dmDaLWNETzg\/SxkW-zVjF7I\/AAAAAAAAAnA\/K8jtfS0oxFo\/s1600-h\/Shepard.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"height: 200px; width: 160px;\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_dmDaLWNETzg\/SxkW-zVjF7I\/AAAAAAAAAnA\/K8jtfS0oxFo\/s200\/Shepard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"209\" border=\"0\"><\/a><em style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Replace the phrase <em>descendants of Israel <\/em>in Isaiah 45 with <em>the sheep of my flock <\/em>from Psalm 99 in today\u2019s morning prayer and ponder these words anew.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Isaiah 45:<br>\n<em>Turn to me and you will be saved, all you ends of the earth;<br>\nfor I am God, there is no other.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><em>I have sworn by my own being,<br>\nI have decreed a judgment that will not be revoked;<br>\nfor every knee will bend to me,<br>\nevery tongue swear by my name.<\/em><\/p>\n<div><em>\u201cOnly in the Lord,\u201d they will say,<br>\n\u201care there justice and strength!\u201d<br>\nAll who resisted him will come to him, and be dismayed;<br>\nbut in the Lord all <\/em><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">descendants of Israel<\/span><em><br>\nwill receive justice and glory.\u201d<\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>From Psalm 99:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Know that the Lord is God<\/em><br>\n<em>He made us and we are his<\/em><br>\n<em>\u2014his people, <\/em><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">the sheep of his flock<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6738513599344023043-7470400226245344872?l=yimcatholic.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Replace the phrase descendants of Israel in Isaiah 45 with the sheep of my flock from Psalm 99 in today\u2019s morning prayer and ponder these words anew. 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