{"id":10269,"date":"2023-03-13T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=10269"},"modified":"2023-03-13T12:21:16","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T18:21:16","slug":"blessings-and-curses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=10269","title":{"rendered":"Blessings and Curses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As God Chooses … … … Graciously!<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Monday, March 13, 2023<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n
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God\u2019s Light Shines!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

No Matter What Obstacles Stand<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Between Us<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

God\u2019s Light Shines Also<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Us Each and All!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Psalms 115:2-3<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why should the nations say, \u2018Where is their God?\u2019 Our God is in the heavens; he does whatever he pleases.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Acts of the Apostles 17:30<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

While God has overlooked the times of human ignorance, now he commands all people everywhere to repent.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Words of Grace For Today<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A sensitive, and creative pastor came to visit on his rounds, first Sheila and then Roxy that seventh day. He started, as always, by reading the 23rd<\/sup> Psalm to each woman. He went on to explain that God worked in mysterious ways for all of us. God knows we all sin. God calls us to repent, and God knows we may or may not repent, but all of us will return to sin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And God planned for that, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So God always offers us a new beginning, a beginning without the burden of our sins of the past, without the burden of others\u2019 sins, with an assurance of God\u2019s blessings, not because we earn them, but simply because God so chooses to be gracious to us, especially when we do not deserve anything good!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the women in turn started to tell him the barest of details about their situation he realized they had much in common yet they were so different. So he arranged for the women to share a room when they were moved out of the ICU that afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After they were both moved into the room, monitors still hooked up to each, both now able to talk and move slowly, the torrent of conversation, anger, grace, and love started to flow between the women, and eventually their few guests, long abandoned family and friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So much for obeying God\u2019s commandments in order to be blessed or disobeying to be cursed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God planned for that, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For us? Yes, for us, too!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our days, whether we obey or disobey God, whether we humbly repent or remain stubborn and proud, will be determined by what God chooses for us. And God chooses that we will be so blessed without rhyme or reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will we notice?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s the challenge of each day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And yes, God planned for that, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As God Chooses … … … Graciously! Monday, March 13, 2023 God\u2019s Light Shines! No Matter What Obstacles Stand Between Us God\u2019s Light Shines Also For Us Each and All! Psalms 115:2-3 Why should the nations say, \u2018Where is their God?\u2019 Our God is in the heavens; he does whatever he pleases. Acts of the … Continue reading “Blessings and Curses”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,18,61,71,47,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dark-and-light","category-grace","category-imagine","category-sunset","category-trees","category-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10269"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10284,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10269\/revisions\/10284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}