Matthew 20:19<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cand deliver Him to the Gentiles to mock and to scourge and to crucify. And the third day He will rise again.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n I am irreversibly connected to Jesus. For this reason, I will be called upon to suffer with Him and sorrow with Him. I know that for some reason, I will also be rejected, mocked and maybe scourged in some way. But praise God; because Jesus rose again, I will rise again also.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is my hope and my consolation. For every life that is intrinsically connected to the life of Jesus, such a life cannot stay down. No matter what Satan does to break or destroy such a life, it cannot be consumed by the plans of hell. Satan cannot have the last say on a heavenly life. He cannot. My life is yoked to Christ and for this reason, I will always rise with Him. I am seated with Him, and even if I am buffeted and scourged and depressed for a short season, I will always rise again to my rightful place with my Savior and Redeemer. Hallelujah. My life is sealed and secured in the Beloved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis is the confidence I have in Christ Jesus, that no matter how evil the schemes are against my life and no matter how hard they try to keep me down, I will surely and repeatedly rise from the ashes of pain and shame. Thank You Jesus for this privilege to stay connected to You. Amen.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Matthew 20:19 \u201cand deliver Him to the Gentiles to mock and to scourge and to crucify. And the third day He will rise again.\u201d I am irreversibly connected to Jesus. For this reason, I will be called upon to suffer with Him and sorrow with Him. I know that for some reason, I will also […]<\/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-4185","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\/4185","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=4185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4187,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4185\/revisions\/4187"}],"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=4185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}