{"id":1533,"date":"2017-01-07T09:11:44","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T15:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gospelriver.com\/sharingchrist\/?p=1533"},"modified":"2017-01-07T09:11:44","modified_gmt":"2017-01-07T15:11:44","slug":"scattered-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gospelriver.com\/sharingchrist\/scattered-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Scattered thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scattered musings of the morning&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>God reveals Himself to those who need Him. If we don&#8217;t see God working in our lives and revealing Himself to us, perhaps it is because we do not need Him&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Where two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them&#8221; (Matt 18:20). Often times assemblies with which we are associated are small in number. But God is great in using small things to accomplish great results, to His glory.<\/p>\n<p>The way in which\u00a0we conduct our meetings does not appeal to the natural mind, but it should appeal to the spiritual, biblical mind. Do I have a spiritual or self-centered\u00a0mind? Do I seek heavenly things over earthly (Col 3:1-2)? Am I dead to this world (Col 3:3)? Is Christ my life (Col 3:4)? Does the Word of Christ dwell in me richly (Col 3:16)? Am I marked by thanksgiving (Col 3:17)? Do I live for the commendation of the Lord over the praise of men (Col 3:23)?<\/p>\n<p>Quote from Voice of the Martyrs magazine (Dec 2016): &#8220;When people persecute me or talk about me badly, I don&#8217;t feel sorry for myself. I always feel sorry for them.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scattered musings of the morning&#8230; God reveals Himself to those who need Him. If we don&#8217;t see God working in our lives and revealing Himself to us, perhaps it is because we do not need Him&#8230; &#8220;Where two or three<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhortation","category-practical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gospelriver.com\/sharingchrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gospelriver.com\/sharingchrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gospelriver.com\/sharingchrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gospelriver.com\/sharingchrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gospelriver.com\/sharingchrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gospelriver.com\/sharingchrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1534,"href":"https:\/\/gospelriver.com\/sharingchrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions\/1534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gospelriver.com\/sharingchrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gospelriver.com\/sharingchrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gospelriver.com\/sharingchrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}