{"id":1153,"date":"2014-07-02T12:52:35","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T17:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2014-07-02T12:52:35","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T17:22:35","slug":"be-glad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/07-02-2014\/be-glad\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Glad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A somewhat ambiguous post title. Don&#8217;t be surprised if this isn&#8217;t what you thought it was going to be.<\/p>\n<p>It is not odd for us to question God, why He does this but not that, or vice versa. We don&#8217;t understand His reasons for everything. We think we do, but I don&#8217;t believe we are mentally capable of grasping what would be God&#8217;s logic. I catch myself thinking about how I would have handled something differently, but I must also consider that my desired actions illustrate why I don&#8217;t need to be God.<\/p>\n<p><em>Note: This is excusing the fact that I am human, not omnipotent, omniscient, or omnipresent. This is just to examine how my carnal nature compares to God&#8217;s ultimate holiness.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>First off, I don&#8217;t tolerate intentional or willful ignorance. I don&#8217;t care if I see it in myself or others, I don&#8217;t like it. I get aggravated. Seeing someone who I know could actually do better choose instead to maintain a sub-par performance is bothersome to me. I don&#8217;t mind giving them an opportunity to try again, but second chances are going to be limited. That&#8217;s one good reason to be thankful I&#8217;m not in charge of the universe.<\/p>\n<p>Next, I don&#8217;t always understand the intentions and motives of others. In school, I was easily convinced to do something by the popular kids. Nothing serious, but I ended up getting out in dodge-ball several times because I trusted them. I am not always able to read people like I think I should, and I may think they are upset when they aren&#8217;t. Or, I may think they are being nice when they are really after something. God knows our hearts, we cannot fool Him.<\/p>\n<p>There are more ways that I could get into, but I think they are best left to another edition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A somewhat ambiguous post title. Don&#8217;t be surprised if this isn&#8217;t what you thought it was going to be. It is not odd for us to question God, why He does this but not that, or vice versa. We don&#8217;t understand His reasons for everything. We think we do, but I don&#8217;t believe we are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1157,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions\/1157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}