{"id":4534,"date":"2016-09-22T23:12:32","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T03:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=4534"},"modified":"2016-09-22T23:15:57","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T03:15:57","slug":"maturity-and-affliction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=4534","title":{"rendered":"Maturity and Affliction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, our maturity certainly involves doing the things Jesus did.  Healing and all.  But that maturity <em>also<\/em> involves becoming like him in the transformation of our character.  It involves holiness &#8212; loving God with all our hearts, souls, minds, and strength.  Being willing to suffer the loss of everything for him.  Choosing him <em>in the midst<\/em> of suffering.  Which is to say, having within us the character of Jesus.  And how does God shape our character?  We hate the answer, but we know it to be true:  affliction.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; John Eldredge, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/moving_mountains.html\">Moving Mountains<\/a><\/em>, p. 224<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, our maturity certainly involves doing the things Jesus did. Healing and all. But that maturity also involves becoming like him in the transformation of our character. It involves holiness &#8212; loving God with all our hearts, souls, minds, and strength. Being willing to suffer the loss of everything for him. Choosing him in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,48,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-growth","category-redemption","category-trials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4534","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=4534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}