{"id":10394,"date":"2023-03-27T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=10394"},"modified":"2023-03-27T12:29:58","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T18:29:58","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=10394","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Brilliant Light?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Monday, March 27, 2023<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n
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Brilliant Light Is Only Welcomed<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Those Who Have Nothing<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To Hide.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Psalms 48:11<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let Mount Zion be glad, let the towns of Judah rejoice because of your judgments.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matthew 10:7<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As you go, proclaim the good news, \u201cThe kingdom of heaven has come near.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

God\u2019s judgments are good news for those whom God does not condemn. Since God turns right-side-up the world\u2019s upside-down way of living to gain for one\u2019s self at others\u2019 expense, those who have \u2018succeeded\u2019 and found a life of privilege, power, and comfort for themselves will be condemned. They will lose all their privilege, power, and comfort – indeed all their life – for eternity when God judges them. Those who the \u2018succeeders\u2019 have put down, cast out, and sucked the life out of, those people will gain a place in God\u2019s Kingdom for eternity. They will live forever as God\u2019s own children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If Zion and the towns of Judah are to rejoice because of God\u2019s judgments, then it must be that they have suffered while others have sucked life out of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God\u2019s judgments are good news. But they are not good news for everyone!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Proclaiming that the Kingdom of God is near, may indeed be good news, but those who do not recognize their own terrible sins will be caught, and for them it\u2019s not good news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The thing that is terrible is that many people who suck life out of others know full well what God\u2019s judgment against them will be. They also know full well that anyone proclaiming that the Kingdom of God is come near is not proclaiming any good news for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watch out proclaimers of \u2018good news\u2019 for the privileged, powerful, and comfortable will do everything possible to stop the proclamation. Taking life is a regular venture for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who could have guessed that proclaiming good news to all people would put one\u2019s life at such risk?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyone who reads the Gospel,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and gives God thanks for the saints who have gone before us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today: more proclaiming the good news is our task, ready of not!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brilliant Light? Monday, March 27, 2023 Brilliant Light Is Only Welcomed By Those Who Have Nothing To Hide. Psalms 48:11 Let Mount Zion be glad, let the towns of Judah rejoice because of your judgments. Matthew 10:7 As you go, proclaim the good news, \u201cThe kingdom of heaven has come near.\u201d Words of Grace For … Continue reading “Welcome”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,57,21,86,62,23,29,46,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dark-and-light","category-daylight","category-holy","category-hope","category-injustice","category-lake","category-perspective","category-tracks","category-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10394","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=10394"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10410,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10394\/revisions\/10410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}