{"id":397,"date":"2020-09-06T20:58:42","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T20:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesconyers.com\/?p=397"},"modified":"2020-10-02T17:32:48","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T17:32:48","slug":"raining-ash-in-denver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesconyers.com\/?p=397","title":{"rendered":"Raining Ash in Denver"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The evening of September 5, 2020 it is raining ash from a fire near Rocky Mountain National Park. This is my first memory of an ash rain since the Haymen Fire of 2003. <\/span><\/p>\n

The devo from tonight was centered around the differences between law and grace. <\/span><\/p>\n

Galatians 5:18 says \u201cBut if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u202d\u202d <\/span>It reminds me of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah when it rained fire and brimstone down and destroyed the city. Unfortunately for everyone in that city minus Lot, His two daughters, and his wife all were destroyed. But they weren\u2019t spared because of their righteousness at all. We remember the interceding of Abraham for Sodom (Gen 18:16-32) and it ending with God saying he would not destroy the city if only 10 righteous persons were found in it. And yet, the city was destroyed and only 3 escaped. <\/span><\/p>\n

So what does that tell us about the righteousness of Lot? In my reading through of Lot\u2019s life I\u2019m not sure how he made it into the book if Peter listed as a righteous man. But we do, and just like all those in Hebrews 11 that are listed we can easily point to their failures and judge them according to our judgements. But luckily for us that is not the way of God. Good didn\u2019t see us according to the law as it says in Galatians. He sees our righteousness according to Jesus Christ. Thank God for that. <\/span><\/p>\n

Lot was delivered because of one righteous decision to flee the city with his family. It was that demonstration of faith that had him named as righteous. And it\u2019s his soul not his body or flesh that is righteous. That\u2019s what Peter says. <\/span><\/p>\n

The Christian views his evidences from the top of Sinai, and grows alarmed concerning his salvation; it were better far if he read his title by the light of Calvary. \u201cWhy,\u201d saith he, \u201cmy faith has unbelief in it, it is not able to save me.\u201d Suppose he had considered <\/span>the object<\/span> of his faith instead of his faith, then he would have said, \u201cThere is no failure in <\/span>him<\/span>, and therefore I am safe.\u201d He sighs over his hope: \u201cAh! my hope is marred and dimmed by an anxious carefulness about present things; how can I be accepted?\u201d Had he regarded <\/span>the ground<\/span> of his hope, he would have seen that the promise of God standeth sure, and that whatever our doubts may be, the oath and promise never fail.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The evening of September 5, 2020 it is raining ash from a fire near Rocky Mountain National Park. This is my first memory of an ash rain since the Haymen Fire of 2003. The devo from tonight was centered around the differences between law and grace. Galatians 5:18 says \u201cBut if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.\u201d \u202d\u202d It reminds me of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah when it rained fire and brimstone down and destroyed the city. Unfortunately for everyone in that city minus Lot, His two daughters, and his wife all were destroyed. But they weren\u2019tRead More →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":407,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[57,58,59],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-james","4":"post-397","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-blogs","9":"post_tag-rain","10":"post_tag-sodom","11":"post_tag-spirit"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesconyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesconyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesconyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesconyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesconyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesconyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398,"href":"https:\/\/jamesconyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions\/398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesconyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesconyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesconyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesconyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}