{"id":409,"date":"2008-03-07T23:03:51","date_gmt":"2008-03-08T03:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/03\/07\/a-rich-self\/"},"modified":"2008-03-07T23:03:51","modified_gmt":"2008-03-08T03:03:51","slug":"a-rich-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=409","title":{"rendered":"A Rich Self"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A rich self has a distinct attitude toward the past, the present, and the future.\u00c2\u00a0 It surveys the past with <em>gratitude <\/em>for what it has received, not with annoyance about what it hasn&#8217;t achieved or about how little it has been given.\u00c2\u00a0 A rich self lives in the present with <em>contentment.<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0 Rather than never having enough of anything except for the burdens others place on it, it is &#8220;always having enough of everything&#8221; (2 Corinthians 9:8).\u00c2\u00a0 It still strives, but it strives out of satisfied fullness, not out of the emptiness of craving.\u00c2\u00a0 A rich self looks toward the future with <em>trust.<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0 It gives rather than holding things back in fear of coming out too short, because it believes God&#8217;s promise that God will take care of it.\u00c2\u00a0 Finite and endangered, a rich self still gives, because its life is &#8220;hidden with Christ&#8221; in the infinite, unassailable, and utterly generous God, the Lord of the present, the past, and the future (see Colossians 3:3).<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Miroslav Volf, <em>Free of Charge, <\/em>p. 110<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rich self has a distinct attitude toward the past, the present, and the future.\u00c2\u00a0 It surveys the past with gratitude for what it has received, not with annoyance about what it hasn&#8217;t achieved or about how little it has been given.\u00c2\u00a0 A rich self lives in the present with contentment.\u00c2\u00a0 Rather than never having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gratitude","category-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","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=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}