{"id":3992,"date":"2011-01-29T06:16:09","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T14:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wordpress\/?p=3992"},"modified":"2011-01-29T20:45:20","modified_gmt":"2011-01-30T04:45:20","slug":"how-could-someone-be-so-ignorant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=3992","title":{"rendered":"How Could Someone Be So Ignorant!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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January 29, 2011<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Who are You, Lord? \u2014Acts 26:15<\/a><\/div>\n
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\u201cThe Lord spoke thus to me with a strong hand . . .\u201d (Isaiah 8:11<\/a>). There is no escape when our Lord speaks. He always comes using His authority and taking hold of our understanding. Has the voice of God come to you directly? If it has, you cannot mistake the intimate insistence with which it has spoken to you. God speaks in the language you know best\u2014 not through your ears, but through your circumstances.<\/p>\n

God has to destroy our determined confidence in our own convictions. We say, \u201cI know that this is what I should do\u201d-and suddenly the voice of God speaks in a way that overwhelms us by revealing the depths of our ignorance. We show our ignorance of Him in the very way we decide to serve Him. We serve Jesus in a spirit that is not His, and hurt Him by our defense of Him. We push His claims in the spirit of the devil; our words sound all right, but the spirit is that of an enemy. \u201cHe . . . rebuked them, and said, \u2019You do not know what manner of spirit you are of\u2019 \u201d (Luke 9:55<\/a>). The spirit of our Lord in His followers is described in\u00a01 Corinthians 13<\/a> .<\/p>\n

Have I been persecuting Jesus by an eager determination to serve Him in my own way? If I feel I have done my duty, yet have hurt Him in the process, I can be sure that this was not my duty. My way will not be to foster a meek and quiet spirit, only the spirit of self-satisfaction. We presume that whatever is unpleasant is our duty! Is that anything like the spirit of our Lord\u2014 \u201cI delight<\/em> to do Your will, O my God . . .\u201d (Psalm 40:8<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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January 29, 2011<\/p>\n

Journal Entry for Today-JDV<\/p>\n

I heard a radio sermon the other day and the preacher talked about obedience and how obedience was the path into the life God wants for us. A path and abundant life filled with blessings. However, he also mentioned that whenever I veer off course and consciously choose not <\/em>to obey God, I will be, he said \u201cMessing with my blessings\u201d.<\/p>\n

And God says\u2026\u201dI am not the cosmic killjoy. The guidelines I have established for you are not cumbersome and I truly want you to have a robust, full and happy life. I made you to enjoy life and have full and wonderful experiences. The reason I give you the guidelines for living is to help you live life to the fullest. Seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things I will add unto you.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

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January 29, 2011 Who are You, Lord? \u2014Acts 26:15 \u201cThe Lord spoke thus to me with a strong hand . . .\u201d (Isaiah 8:11). There is no escape when our Lord speaks. He always comes using His authority and taking hold of our understanding. Has the voice of God come to you directly? If it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3992"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3992"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3994,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3992\/revisions\/3994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}