{"id":12479,"date":"2025-06-18T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=12479"},"modified":"2025-06-16T11:33:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T17:33:05","slug":"touched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=12479","title":{"rendered":"Touched"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">By God\u2019s Good Word<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Wednesday, June 18, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Left Rejoicing<\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"288\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/18.PS20250417_152204920.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/18.PS20250417_152204920.jpg 288w, https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/18.PS20250417_152204920-169x300.jpg 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 85vw, 288px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><em>Don\u2019t Be Caught In the Ruts.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Look Up and See and<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><em>Rejoice!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jeremiah 15:16<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart; for I am called by your name, O Lord, God of hosts.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Acts of the Apostles 8:38-39<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>He commanded the chariot to stop, and both of them, Philip and the eunuch, went down into the water, and Philip baptized him. When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away; the eunuch saw him no more, and went on his way rejoicing.<\/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>So many people, so many times talk about encountering God\u2019s Word<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>either<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>being so joyed that everything about their lives is denied, and a fake smile is plastered across their life, all the while their hearts rot out from under them,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>or<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>find the burdens and costs (of discipleship that burn out their sins to make room for a new life) too much, so they proceed through life glum or depressed, while still claiming that God\u2019s Good News has saved them again this day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God intends for us to receive the Good (and Costly) News,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>hungrily,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>wholeheartedly,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>submitting to the demands<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and securing ourselves only in God\u2019s Promises<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>to be with us,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And knowing Peace like not otherwise possible<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and Joy as the primary event in our lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Smile also today<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>from the heart<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>for all that God provides is delightful<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>in the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By God\u2019s Good Word Wednesday, June 18, 2025 Left Rejoicing Don\u2019t Be Caught In the Ruts. Look Up and See and Rejoice! Jeremiah 15:16 Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart; for I am called by your name, O Lord, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=12479\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Touched&#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":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roadways"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12479","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=12479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12490,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12479\/revisions\/12490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}