{"id":11905,"date":"2024-08-31T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-31T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=11905"},"modified":"2024-08-31T12:31:37","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T18:31:37","slug":"the-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=11905","title":{"rendered":"The Difference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

God’s Because-Therefore<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Saturday, August 31, 2024<\/h1>\n\n\n
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Can We See Through the Fog Of Demands Laid On Us, To See God\u2019s Love for Us ALL!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Malachi 3:17<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

They shall be mine, says the Lord of hosts, my special possession on the day when I act, and I will spare them as parents spare their children who serve them.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matthew 5:9<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Words of Grace For Today<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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They shall be mine, says the Lord of host<\/em>s!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ten Commandments start with BECAUSE. Because God is our God. What follows is many THEREFOREs. Therefore we will keep the Sabbath, honour our parents, and so on, showing us that our relationships are most important. God\u2019s \u201cBecause-Therefore\u201d laws begin with God\u2019s love for us, followed by a guide to how we can return God\u2019s love and love one another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we live, assured of God\u2019s love for us – not striving to meet the demands of the Laws as if they were all and IF-THEN proposition: If we follow, then we are God\u2019s people. And if not, then not! When we live, assured of God\u2019s love for us life becomes a project of bringing God\u2019s love to all people, and that converts us into peacemakers, those people who bring peace, by assuring people that they are loved, and can love one another,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

no matter their differences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What a blessing to be able to share in today\u2019s polarized and fractured world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

God’s Because-Therefore Saturday, August 31, 2024 Can We See Through the Fog Of Demands Laid On Us, To See God\u2019s Love for Us ALL! Malachi 3:17 They shall be mine, says the Lord of hosts, my special possession on the day when I act, and I will spare them as parents spare their children who … Continue reading “The Difference”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,59,23,91,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breathe","category-fog-weather","category-lake","category-shore","category-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11905","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=11905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11908,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11905\/revisions\/11908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}