{"id":5132,"date":"2022-10-05T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=5132"},"modified":"2022-09-20T15:17:31","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T21:17:31","slug":"more-valuable-than-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=5132","title":{"rendered":"More Valuable Than Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’m grateful to Dr. David Jordan-Irwin, pastor of Monument Community Presbyterian Church, for passing along this story, which he says is taken from Lectio 365.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At her coronation the Queen of England was presented with a Bible as these extraordinary words rang out in Westminster Abbey, and around the world:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We present you with this book, the most valuable thing that this world affords. Here is wisdom, this is the royal law, these are the lively oracles of God.” <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

She was wearing, at the time, a priceless golden crown adorned with 2,901 precious stones, she was sitting upon a throne in a thousand-year-old vaulted abbey, and yet, God’s Word was recognized as “the most valuable thing that this world affords.”\u00a0from Lectio 365<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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7 <\/sup>\u00a0The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple;
8 <\/sup>\u00a0the precepts of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes;
9 <\/sup>\u00a0the fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever; the rules of the LORD are true, and righteous altogether.
10 <\/sup>\u00a0More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold… (Psalm 19.7 – 10, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m grateful to Dr. David Jordan-Irwin, pastor of Monument Community Presbyterian Church, for passing along this story, which he says is taken from Lectio 365. At her coronation the Queen of England was presented with a Bible as these extraordinary words rang out in Westminster Abbey, and around the world: “We present you with this … Continue reading More Valuable Than Gold<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-1kM","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5135,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5132\/revisions\/5135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}