{"id":9743,"date":"2023-09-28T02:22:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T02:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9743"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:32:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:32:46","slug":"dust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9743","title":{"rendered":"DUST"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Psalm 103 is becoming one of my favorite passages in all the Bible. Here&#8217;s verses 1 to 14:<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>1 Bless the LORD, O my soul; all that is within me, bless His holy name.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and do not forget all His kind deeds\u2014<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>3 He who forgives all your iniquities and heals all your diseases,<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>4 who redeems your life from the Pit and crowns you with loving devotion and compassion,<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>5 who satisfies you with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle\u2019s.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>6 The LORD executes righteousness and justice for all the oppressed.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>7 He made known His ways to Moses, His deeds to the people of Israel.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>8 The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>9 He will not always accuse us, nor harbor His anger forever.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>10 He has not dealt with us according to our sins or repaid us according to our iniquities.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>11 For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His loving devotion for those who fear Him.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>12 As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>13 As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear Him.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>14 For He knows our frame; He is mindful that we are dust.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">King David wasn&#8217;t much of a Calvinist.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psalm 103 is becoming one of my favorite passages in all the Bible. Here&#8217;s verses 1 to 14: 1 Bless the LORD, O my soul; all that is within me, bless His holy name. 2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and do not forget all His kind deeds\u2014 3 He who forgives all your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9744,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9743\/revisions\/9744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}