{"id":483,"date":"2013-01-22T19:11:16","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T00:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/daily\/?p=483"},"modified":"2013-01-22T19:11:16","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T00:11:16","slug":"wwr-worship-while-runing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/?p=483","title":{"rendered":"WWR (Worship While Running)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Nothing is beyond You<br \/>\nYou stand beyond the reach<br \/>\nOf our vain imaginations<br \/>\nOur misguided piety<br \/>\nThe heavens stretch to hold You<br \/>\nAnd deep cries out to deep<br \/>\nSinging that nothing is beyond You<br \/>\nNothing is beyond You<\/p>\n<p>Time cannot contain You<br \/>\nYou fill eternity<br \/>\nSin can never stain You<br \/>\nDeath has lost its sting<\/p>\n<p>And I cannot explain the way You came to love me<br \/>\nExcept to say that nothing is beyond You<br \/>\nNothing is beyond You\u2026<\/p>\n<p>(Rich Mullins, &#8220;Nothing is Beyond You&#8221;)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Recently started running (hmm\u2026 slowly jogging) again\u2026 and was worshipping our Savior over his wondrous love toward us. Too high, wide, deep to be understood\u2026 Him being perfect, and me being the blind one, the weak one, the withered and sinner.<\/p>\n<p>Rich Mullins died before these songs were published. But they make me think of the amazing grace of the only Savior this world has ever known.<\/p>\n<p>Think of him having compassion on the crowd who had nothing to eat (Matthew 15:32); healing the withered hand (Matthew 12:10); opening the eyes of the blind, even the blind from birth (John 9:1). And how he takes our hearts of stone and gives us hearts that live.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m the blind, the withered, the hungry\u2026 and\u00a0Jesus Christ\u00a0has taken my heart of stone and given a heart that is alive.<\/p>\n<p>Marvelous.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It was said this man was of no reputation<br \/>\nYet He could stop the rising storm<br \/>\nWith a gesture of His hand<br \/>\nBut He chose to use His hands to heal<br \/>\nHearts of darkness hearts of stone<br \/>\nJust like mine would be revealed<\/p>\n<p>But this man of no reputation<br \/>\nLoved the weak with relentless affection<br \/>\nAnd He loved all those poor in spirit just as they were<br \/>\nHe was a man of no reputation<\/p>\n<p>(Rich Mullins, &#8220;Man of No Reputation&#8221;)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing is beyond You You stand beyond the reach Of our vain imaginations Our misguided piety The heavens stretch to hold You And deep cries out to deep Singing that nothing is beyond You Nothing is beyond You Time cannot contain You You fill eternity Sin can never stain You Death has lost its sting &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/?p=483\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WWR (Worship While Running)<\/span> <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}