{"id":424,"date":"2008-03-24T20:57:49","date_gmt":"2008-03-25T00:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/03\/24\/god-wants-to-bless-us\/"},"modified":"2008-03-24T20:57:49","modified_gmt":"2008-03-25T00:57:49","slug":"god-wants-to-bless-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=424","title":{"rendered":"God wants to bless us."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s never a moment in all our lives, from the day we trusted Christ till the day we see Him, when God is not longing to bless us.\u00c2\u00a0 At every moment, in every circumstance, God is doing us good.\u00c2\u00a0 He never stops.\u00c2\u00a0 It gives Him too much pleasure.\u00c2\u00a0 God is not waiting to bless us after our troubles end.\u00c2\u00a0 He is blessing us right now, in and through those troubles.\u00c2\u00a0 At this exact moment, He is giving us what He thinks is good.<\/p>\n<p>There, of course, is the rub.\u00c2\u00a0 He gives us what <em>He <\/em>thinks is good, what He <em>knows <\/em>is good.\u00c2\u00a0 <em>We <\/em>don&#8217;t always agree.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Larry Crabb, <em>Shattered Dreams, <\/em>p. 1-2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s never a moment in all our lives, from the day we trusted Christ till the day we see Him, when God is not longing to bless us.\u00c2\u00a0 At every moment, in every circumstance, God is doing us good.\u00c2\u00a0 He never stops.\u00c2\u00a0 It gives Him too much pleasure.\u00c2\u00a0 God is not waiting to bless us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-life","category-trials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","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=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}