{"id":2842,"date":"2019-09-30T08:17:49","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T12:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/detroitmarthoma.org\/main\/?p=2842"},"modified":"2019-09-30T08:17:49","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T12:17:49","slug":"the-valley-of-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/detroitmarthoma.org\/main\/2019\/09\/30\/the-valley-of-vision\/","title":{"rendered":"The Valley of Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong>Jonah 2:1-10<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><strong>I remembered you,\u00a0Lord, and my prayer rose to you.(Jonah 2:7)<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<div>The Puritan prayer \u201cThe Valley of Vision\u201d speaks of the distance between a sinful man and his holy God. The man says to God, \u201cThou hast brought me to the valley of vision\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0; hemmed in by mountains of sin I behold Thy glory.\u201d Aware of his wrongs, the man still has hope. He continues, \u201cStars can be seen from the deepest wells, and the deeper the wells the brighter Thy stars shine.\u201d Finally, the poem ends with a request: \u201cLet me find Thy light in my darkness, .\u00a0.\u00a0. Thy glory in my valley.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>Jonah found God\u2019s glory during his time in the ocean\u2019s depths. He rebelled against God and ended up in a fish\u2019s stomach, overcome by his sin. There, Jonah cried to God: \u201cYou cast me into the deep .\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0. The waters surrounded me, even to my soul\u201d (Jonah 2:3,5\u00a0nkjv). Despite his situation, Jonah said, \u201cI remembered you,\u00a0Lord, and my prayer rose to you\u201d (v. 7). God heard his prayer and caused the fish to free him.<\/div>\n<div>Although sin creates distance between God and us, we can look up from the lowest points in our lives and see Him\u2014His holiness, goodness, and grace. If we turn away from our sin and confess it to God, He will forgive us. God answers prayers from the valley.<\/div>\n<div><em><strong>PRAYER<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Lord, in the daytime stars can be seen from deepest wells, and the deeper the wells the brighter Your stars shine; let me find Your light in my darkness.Amen.<br \/>\nTHOUGHT FOR THE DAY<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>The darkness of sin only makes the light of God\u2019s grace shine brighter.<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><em><strong>Christian Education Forum, Diocese of NAE of the Mar Thoma Church<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonah 2:1-10 I remembered you,\u00a0Lord, and my prayer rose to you.(Jonah 2:7) The Puritan prayer \u201cThe Valley of Vision\u201d speaks of the distance between a sinful man and his holy&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reflections"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/detroitmarthoma.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Jonah2-1-10.jpg?fit=816%2C459&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/detroitmarthoma.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/detroitmarthoma.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/detroitmarthoma.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/detroitmarthoma.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/detroitmarthoma.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/detroitmarthoma.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2844,"href":"https:\/\/detroitmarthoma.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842\/revisions\/2844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/detroitmarthoma.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/detroitmarthoma.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/detroitmarthoma.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/detroitmarthoma.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}