{"id":240,"date":"2007-12-14T22:30:07","date_gmt":"2007-12-15T02:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2007\/12\/14\/what-faith-sees\/"},"modified":"2007-12-14T22:30:07","modified_gmt":"2007-12-15T02:30:07","slug":"what-faith-sees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=240","title":{"rendered":"What Faith Sees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What does faith see?\u00c2\u00a0 For that, we must return, I think, to the moment when we saw by faith for the very first time.\u00c2\u00a0 In that moment, we saw differently than we had ever seen before.\u00c2\u00a0 We had x-ray vision then.\u00c2\u00a0 We were able to see through the things of this world and recognize in them God&#8217;s invisible qualities &#8212; love, order, patience, enthusiasm &#8212; revealed in the world he created for our benefit.\u00c2\u00a0 Faith, after all, merely confirms what creation shows us in that first lightning bolt of believing.\u00c2\u00a0 We looked at apples, grass, shade and saw provision.\u00c2\u00a0 We looked at algebra and saw order.\u00c2\u00a0 We looked at our pain and struggles, even our terror, and recognized God&#8217;s patience and his amazing gift of free will.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Patty Kirk, <em>Confessions of an Amateur Believer, <\/em>p. 55<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does faith see?\u00c2\u00a0 For that, we must return, I think, to the moment when we saw by faith for the very first time.\u00c2\u00a0 In that moment, we saw differently than we had ever seen before.\u00c2\u00a0 We had x-ray vision then.\u00c2\u00a0 We were able to see through the things of this world and recognize in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-joy","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}