{"id":7126,"date":"2026-01-21T13:00:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T18:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twolisteners.org\/?p=7126"},"modified":"2026-01-01T19:10:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T00:10:01","slug":"god-at-eventide-january-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/?p=7126","title":{"rendered":"God At Eventide &#8211; January 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">January 21 \u2013 Exceeding Great Reward<\/span> <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I am thy shield\u00a0and thine exceeding great reward.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Shield from the storm of life.\u00a0 Shield from even the consequences of your own faults and failings.\u00a0 Shield from your weakness.\u00a0 Shield from worry.\u00a0 Shield from fear and sorrow.\u00a0 Shield from the world with its\u00a0allure and temptations.\u00a0 Not only your shield, but your exceeding great reward.<\/p>\n<p>Not the reward of perfection in your life, for that you could not win here.\u00a0 Not the reward of what you do, or of any merit in yourself.\u00a0 Only the result, or reward of your questing.\u00a0 The satisfaction of your hunger to find me.\u00a0 Exceeding great reward.<\/p>\n<p>Your reward is the same as that of the\u00a0greatest saint\u00a0who has ever lived.\u00a0 Given not as a trophy of victory, not as a recognition of virtue, but given because you are the seeker, and I, your Lord, am the Sought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 21 \u2013 Exceeding Great Reward I am thy shield\u00a0and thine exceeding great reward. Shield from the storm of life.\u00a0 Shield from even the consequences of your own faults and failings.\u00a0 Shield from your weakness.\u00a0 Shield from worry.\u00a0 Shield from fear and sorrow.\u00a0 Shield from the world with its\u00a0allure and temptations.\u00a0 Not only your shield, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/?p=7126\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">God At Eventide &#8211; January 21<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eventide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10119,"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7126\/revisions\/10119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}