{"id":12316,"date":"2025-03-30T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=12316"},"modified":"2025-03-30T13:27:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T19:27:46","slug":"persecuted-judged-blessed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=12316","title":{"rendered":"Persecuted Judged Blessed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">By God\u2019s Judgments<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sunday, March 30, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">God&#8217;s Turning It All Right-Side-Up<\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/30.PSSoldierOnRock.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/30.PSSoldierOnRock.jpg 512w, https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/30.PSSoldierOnRock-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 85vw, 512px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Quebec photographer Charles-Fr\u00e9d\u00e9rick Ouellet captured this photograph while embedding with a SOPFEU wildfire fighting crew in July 2023. The photograph has won the North and Central American Single Photograph award at the 2023 World Press Photo contest. (Charles-Fr\u00e9d\u00e9rick Ouellet\/Submitted by World Press Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>From Disaster to Distant Galaxies to the Smallest Subatomic Particle-Wave<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Psalm 105:7<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>He is the Lord our God; his judgments are in all the earth.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Matthew 5:10<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness\u2019 sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Words of Grace for Today &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God judges everything, everyone, every issue in all the universe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We, of course, make our own judgments, against each other, against ourselves, against nature itself as we extract, exploit, and lay waste God\u2019s wonders in us and in all creation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God\u2019s judgments are long since disclosed,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>as best we were able and willing to be disclosed to<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>through the generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then Jesus came, the clearest revelation of God\u2019s will for us and all creation, turning our disclosing and discussing and diverting and distracting from<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God\u2019s will already revealed to us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Until now we have no excuse,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>except all the same old excuses,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>for not knowing God\u2019s will for us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God\u2019s will simply put: to love God with all our heart, mind, and strength (and soul),<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and to love one another and all creation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>as God\u2019s gifts to us<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>to share<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>especially with the poor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Always the poor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For God turns everything upsidedown on us<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>making everything rightsideup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The persecuted are blessed and given the Kingdom of Heaven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(After the poor are blessed, and satisfied!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By God\u2019s Judgments Sunday, March 30, 2025 God&#8217;s Turning It All Right-Side-Up From Disaster to Distant Galaxies to the Smallest Subatomic Particle-Wave Psalm 105:7 He is the Lord our God; his judgments are in all the earth. . Matthew 5:10 Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness\u2019 sake, for theirs is the kingdom of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=12316\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Persecuted Judged Blessed&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12316","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=12316"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12322,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12316\/revisions\/12322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}