{"id":15426,"date":"2017-04-03T09:03:24","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T13:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=15426"},"modified":"2017-04-03T09:12:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T13:12:42","slug":"if-you-had-known-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=15426","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIf You Had Known!\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WjEUyTBySq8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>If you had known\u2026in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. \u2014Luke 19:42<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jesus entered Jerusalem triumphantly and the city was stirred to its very foundations, but a strange god was there\u2013 the pride of the Pharisees. It was a god that seemed religious and upright, but Jesus compared it to \u201cwhitewashed tombs which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men\u2019s bones and all uncleanness\u201d (Matthew 23:27).<\/p>\n<p>What is it that blinds you to the peace of God \u201cin this your day\u201d? Do you have a strange god\u2013 not a disgusting monster but perhaps an unholy nature that controls your life? More than once God has brought me face to face with a strange god in my life, and I knew that I should have given it up, but I didn\u2019t do it. I got through the crisis \u201cby the skin of my teeth,\u201d only to find myself still under the control of that strange god. I am blind to the very things that make for my own peace. It is a shocking thing that we can be in the exact place where the Spirit of God should be having His completely unhindered way with us, and yet we only make matters worse, increasing our blame in God\u2019s eyes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you had known\u2026.\u201d God\u2019s words here cut directly to the heart, with the tears of Jesus behind them. These words imply responsibility for our own faults. God holds us accountable for what we refuse to see or are unable to see because of our sin. And \u201cnow they are hidden from your eyes\u201d because you have never completely yielded your nature to Him. Oh, the deep, unending sadness for what might have been! God never again opens the doors that have been closed. He opens other doors, but He reminds us that there are doors which we have shut\u2013 doors which had no need to be shut. Never be afraid when God brings back your past. Let your memory have its way with you. It is a minister of God bringing its rebuke and sorrow to you. God will turn what might have been into a wonderful lesson of growth for the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you had known\u2026in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. \u2014Luke 19:42 Jesus entered Jerusalem triumphantly and the city was stirred to its very foundations, but a strange god was there\u2013 the pride of the Pharisees. It was a god that seemed religious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15426"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15426"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15429,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15426\/revisions\/15429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}