We are born in need of a Savior. Jesus is the only one able to repair the breach made by the first Adam. We are made blameless and acceptable by the blood of God\u2019s only begotten Son. There is no other way.<\/b><\/p>\n
Father, I thank you that even though we are born into sin, you love us too much to leave us without hope. I thank you that I was predestined for redemption through Jesus Christ, my Lord. I praise the King of Glory, who has shown forth His tender mercies.<\/i><\/p>\n My thoughts For further study: We are born in need of a Savior. Jesus is the only one able to repair the breach made by the first Adam. We are made blameless and acceptable by the blood of God\u2019s only begotten Son. There is no other way. Father, I thank you that even though we are born into sin, you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-poetryspotlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahjeankelly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahjeankelly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahjeankelly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahjeankelly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahjeankelly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/deborahjeankelly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449,"href":"https:\/\/deborahjeankelly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions\/449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahjeankelly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahjeankelly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahjeankelly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Tender Mercies
There have been times I\u2019ve wondered why
We can\u2019t recall our birth
The journey through eternity\nTo pause upon this Earth\nWhen flesh was cut away from flesh\nThat we might enter in\nA frantic cry for help \u2013 \nThe cold, the glare, the noise, the sin\nI thank you Lord, we don\u2019t recall \nThe times we cried and knew\nThe cost of being born of them\nWas separateness from you!<\/pre>\n\u201cSurely I was sinful at birth,
sinful from the
time my mother
conceived me.\u201d\u00a0
~ Psalm 51:5<\/b><\/h4>\n
No one remembers the moment they were born, when they took that first breath in time, but we know that it happened. It\u2019s interesting that the first sound we utter is often a cry, as if something traumatic has taken place. Could it be that that the Savior of our souls who dries our tears also tempered our remembrances\u2014knowing just how much we could bear?<\/p>\n
<\/em>Jeremiah 1:5
Psalm 139:16
Isaiah 49:1
Romans 8:29-30
Ezekiel 18:4
Romans 6:23<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"