{"id":2894,"date":"2016-01-30T11:40:13","date_gmt":"2016-01-30T16:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/?p=2894"},"modified":"2016-01-30T11:40:13","modified_gmt":"2016-01-30T16:40:13","slug":"my-god-my-portion-and-my-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/my-god-my-portion-and-my-love","title":{"rendered":"My God, My Portion, and My Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Driving home last night after hosting my radio program my own radio was tuned to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wrcjfm.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">WRJC-FM 90.9<\/a>.<\/strong> I want to thank them for introducing me to this great Isaac Watts hymn which I had never heard before.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a video of the performance of the hymn by the\u00a0Choir at St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN in the Boe Memorial Chapel on May 7, 2012. The hymn text is below the video.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jDKDIP_KMLk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hymn text by Isaac Watts<\/strong> set to the tune Dunlap&#8217;s Creek arr. Mack Wilberg.<br \/>\nGerard Sundberg, Soloist. Zach Busch, Pianist. Joshua McClure, Organist.<\/p>\n<p>My God, my Portion, and my Love,<br \/>\nMy Everlasting All,<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve none but Thee in heav&#8217;n above<br \/>\nOr on this earthly ball.<\/p>\n<p>What empty things are all the skies,<br \/>\nAnd this inferior clod!<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s nothing here deserves my joys,<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s nothing like my God.<\/p>\n<p>In vain the bright, the burning sun,<br \/>\nScatters his feeble light;<br \/>\n&#8216;Tis Thy sweet beams create my noon;<br \/>\nIf Thou withdraw, &#8217;tis night.<\/p>\n<p>Let all that dwell above the sky,<br \/>\nAnd air, and earth, and seas,<br \/>\nConspire to lift Thy glories high<br \/>\nAnd speak Thine endless praise.<\/p>\n<p>The whole creation, join in one,<br \/>\nTo bless the sacred Name,<br \/>\nOf Him that sits upon the throne,<br \/>\nAnd to adore the Lamb!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driving home last night after hosting my radio program my own radio was tuned to WRJC-FM 90.9. I want to thank them for introducing me to this great Isaac Watts hymn which I had never heard before. Here is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/my-god-my-portion-and-my-love\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2895,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894\/revisions\/2895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}