{"id":11002,"date":"2023-08-03T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=11002"},"modified":"2023-08-03T14:00:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T20:00:14","slug":"fickle-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=11002","title":{"rendered":"Fickle Love."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sure Love.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, August 3, 2023<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n
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Challenged, Human Love Fades<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Sunlight In Smoke<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Making Cowards<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Out Of More And More Of Us.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hosea 6:4<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? Your love is like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes away early.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 Corinthians 13:1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Love?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Love??<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Love is a<\/p>\n\n\n\n

wondrous<\/p>\n\n\n\n

complicated<\/p>\n\n\n\n

often confused<\/p>\n\n\n\n

most often abused<\/p>\n\n\n\n

little understood and acknowledged<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and<\/p>\n\n\n\n

necessary for life,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

or at least life abundant as God created us to live it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Human love is like the morning dew that evaporates in the heat of the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God\u2019s love is steadfast and sure,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the only thing that can be trusted in all the universe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When people say they love us, that usually means they want to take something from us and,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

when they have gotten all they can get, then they decide that they do not love us anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We humans love God like that, too. Greedy and fickle, changing with the time of day and the tide of climate change and with opportunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God\u2019s love is sure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The only thing that is really sure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Locked down, constant, unchanging, and reliable<\/p>\n\n\n\n

if we dare see reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that is it really, love requires courage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We humans are mostly cowards, though we like to think otherwise. Which is part of our problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the Holy Spirit makes us courageous, then watch out, for the miracles pour through us from God to others, wondrously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like feeding 5000 men and 20,000 women and children with 2 fish and 5 loaves of bread. Turning hearts from fear to trusting and generous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will God\u2019s love miraculously turn our hearts today from fear to trusting and generous?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watch and see,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

if we dare!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sure Love. Thursday, August 3, 2023 Challenged, Human Love Fades Like Sunlight In Smoke Making Cowards Out Of More And More Of Us. Hosea 6:4 What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? Your love is like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes away early. … Continue reading “Fickle Love.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,18,23,88,91,39,67,42,43,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abuse","category-grace","category-lake","category-love-and-hope","category-shore","category-sky","category-smoke-weather","category-stupidity","category-summer","category-sunset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11002","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=11002"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11018,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11002\/revisions\/11018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}