{"id":5882,"date":"2024-09-16T02:12:41","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T02:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/?p=5882"},"modified":"2024-09-16T02:12:41","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T02:12:41","slug":"when-at-our-wits-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/2024\/09\/16\/when-at-our-wits-end\/","title":{"rendered":"WHEN AT OUR WIT&#8217;S END."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Psa 107:27-29 They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, And are at their wits&#8217; end.Then they cry out to the LORD in their trouble, And He brings them out of their distresses. He calms the storm, So that its waves are still.<\/p>\n<p>There was a terrible storm at the sea.  The ship was tossed up and down and the souls of the seamen melted with fear. There was so much disturbance causing the occupants to &#8221; reel to and fro&#8221;. It  made them giddy, stagger and they become like drunken men.<\/p>\n<p>The whole ship crew could  not take it any more. Their wisdom and experience  could not help them; they were at the Wits&#8217; end. In their distress, they cried to the Lord. The Lord graciously heard them and he caused the storm to be still. The surface of the sea became smooth and smiling.<\/p>\n<p>You may be at your wits&#8217; end ; You cannot take it anymore. You are completely puzzled and perplexed, not knowing what to do. Your education, experience, wisdom and connections cannot sort you out. Don&#8217;t give up !  It&#8217;s time to come boldly to the throne of grace and cry out to Him.<br \/>\n&#8221; They cried to the Lord in their trouble, And he brought them out of their distress. He caused the storm to be still &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Further readings:<br \/>\nPsa 22:14<br \/>\nPsa 107:19<br \/>\nLuk 8:23-24<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude4fBlessed Week \ud83d\ude4f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psa 107:27-29 They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, And are at their wits&#8217; end.Then they cry out to the LORD in their trouble, And He brings them out of their distresses. He calms the storm, So that its waves are still. There was a terrible storm at the sea. The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5882"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5884,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5882\/revisions\/5884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}