{"id":4650,"date":"2024-08-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/reading-plan\/august-16\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T06:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T11:55:11","slug":"august-16","status":"publish","type":"reading-plan","link":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/reading-plan\/august-16\/","title":{"rendered":"August 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Insight from 2 Corinthians<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe old covenant age was one of ignorance and hardness, with the devil keeping most of the world blind to God\u2019s glories culminating in Christ (2 Cor. 4:3\u20134). But in Jesus new creation dawns, with gospel light breaking over the horizon and dispersing darkness and shadow (2 Cor. 4:6). Why would God purpose to extend such a season of hardness, ignorance, and blindness where the majority did <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">not<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> understand his word, cherish his precepts, heed his commands, or hope in his promises? Paul believes God purposed to move those receiving his mercy to marvel more at his manifold glory in Christ. The Lord made the darkness so deep and the night so long so that we on whom the light has dawned may be able to savor even more the warmth, brilliance, and merciful glory of God bound up in his gift of Christ.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_crdt_document":""},"class_list":["post-4650","reading-plan","type-reading-plan","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reading-plan\/4650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reading-plan"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reading-plan"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}