{"id":3717,"date":"2018-04-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/?p=3717"},"modified":"2024-08-23T16:36:02","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T16:36:02","slug":"always-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/2018\/04\/06\/always-believe\/","title":{"rendered":"ALWAYS BELIEVE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Matthew 9:4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cBut Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, \u2018Why do you think evil in your hearts?\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hiding from God is futile and pointless. Jesus knows what\u2019s in our hearts, even before we speak. He is God. And when we don\u2019t believe Him in our hearts, He knows. He sees all things. That\u2019s why He is who He is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Believe Him even when what He says does not make sense or fit into the normal mold. Although saying to a paralytic man, \u201c<em>your sins are forgiven you<\/em>\u201d may not make sense, we are not permitted to doubt. What may look like blasphemy to others, is truism with Jesus. Jesus is Lord. Failing to take Him at His word is evil thinking and blasphemy. Jesus may not fit into our mold, but He is always right and correct. We must submit to this and believe even when we don\u2019t fully understand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cFather, I don\u2019t always understand Jesus, but I will believe. Sometimes, Jesus does and says things that confuse me, but I still choose to believe. O Lord, help me never to doubt in my heart because this would be evil. Please, Lord. In Jesus name. Amen.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew 9:4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cBut Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, \u2018Why do you think evil in your hearts?\u2019\u201d Hiding from God is futile and pointless. Jesus knows what\u2019s in our hearts, even before we speak. He is God. And when we don\u2019t believe Him in our hearts, He knows. He sees all things. That\u2019s why He is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-reflections-from-matthew"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Reflections-from-Matthew.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3719,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3717\/revisions\/3719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}