{"id":3883,"date":"2020-05-05T12:06:31","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T16:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cupepc.org\/cup-church\/?p=3883"},"modified":"2020-05-05T12:06:35","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T16:06:35","slug":"devotional-may-4-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cupepc.org\/cup-church\/2020\/05\/devotional-may-4-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Devotional &#8211; May 4, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What can a puppy teach us about our relationship with God? Join me (and little Schubert) for a few minutes with Psalm 131 and finding our sufficiency in God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Devotional - May 4, 2020\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-xdbCzT2lwE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Devotional - May 4, 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Music today: Josh Garrels, 'Zion and Babylon'. The first half of the song describes the mindset of 'Babylon': the secular world. The second the mindset of Zion: a very different approach that finds its hope in God rather than material power.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RfsdVvcubnA&amp;fbclid=IwAR2GGztVmBdkkcMaMeJbO9o206TicVtn-uGWBMwvcgL8jdI7aBec1BYKlLE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RfsdVvcubnA<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also: Vladimir Horowitz, 'Traumerei (Dreaming)' Live in Moscow, 1986. One of the most peaceful, hopeful pieces I know, played by a Russian exile back in Moscow in the latter stages of the Cold War. I believe meditating on the reality of the Lord's love in the midst of our broken world looks something like what we see on the faces of this audience.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dw3BXcKgpvcs%26fbclid%3DIwAR3sDZep_8vLTpi-WOo_OevpkC2xl2q_o8EOTDRUeV3JqjgOEsmX5zkb-7E&amp;h=AT3dPWQtqdK6nQrS-BbeVt2aZZZxtgn9GZ6zgnU9WUlzC3h4XhI5gfwIzw52pMt5jY-koL65w4eGTwxigeJLhpDDzLe1OA-AOhdScjYiH1wjztKpsIUbXm3Bg71OcD3j5H-SupzgtD2aM-ZJmSP6rjY-RZEdzzawFr7iYVwXClP22oU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w3BXcKgpvcs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What can a puppy teach us about our relationship with God? Join me (and little Schubert) for a few minutes with Psalm 131 and finding our sufficiency in God. Music today: Josh Garrels, &#8216;Zion and Babylon&#8217;. The first half of the song describes the mindset of &#8216;Babylon&#8217;: the secular world. The second the mindset of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cupepc.org\/cup-church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3883"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cupepc.org\/cup-church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cupepc.org\/cup-church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cupepc.org\/cup-church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cupepc.org\/cup-church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cupepc.org\/cup-church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cupepc.org\/cup-church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cupepc.org\/cup-church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cupepc.org\/cup-church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}