{"id":2303,"date":"2011-12-22T06:00:01","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T13:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/dailyevotional\/?p=2303"},"modified":"2011-12-21T14:49:49","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T21:49:49","slug":"the-long-and-short-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/the-long-and-short-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"THE LONG AND SHORT OF IT!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Genesis 1:16b-18<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><em>God made two great lights\u2014the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth, to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">It hardly seems possible, but we have reached the time of the winter Solstice. In the north that means we have reached the shortest day of the year, while those of you in the southern hemisphere are now enjoying the longest day of the year.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">I do not want to display my ignorance trying to explain how the earth has a slight wobble that creates the seasons. All I know is that God designed the world that way for a purpose. It gives us times of warmth and times of cold. Our life on earth depends upon the way God has designed the seasons.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">God has created within each of us the desire to seek after Him. In the first chapter of <em>Romans<\/em>, the Apostle Paul writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, proves His existence by the way He has created our world.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Each of us must pass through those times of our life when we feel that it is the shortest day of our life. There is more dark than light. It is in these times that God speaks to us and urges us to hold on until His light shines through. It is in the long night of our lives that we need to take His hand and wait for the dawn.<\/p>\n<p>Blessings dear hearts. Draw near to God today, trust Him completely and be a blessing!<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8212;Pastor Cecil<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>P.S.<\/strong> &#8211; You can find previous E-Votionals covering a variety of Scriptures and topics to help you in your walk with the Lord at <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">www.Daily-E-Votional.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>My book, 100 of Pastor Cecil\u2019s Select Illustrations, is now available on Kindle books. Just go the Kindle store and type in Pastor Cecil\u2019s Select Illustrations, or Pastor Cecil Thompson.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genesis 1:16b-18 God made two great lights\u2014the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth, to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genesis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}