What we needed was a new perspective.\u00c2\u00a0 Our gratitude had grown tired, and we needed grace.<\/p>\n
We found it when we stumbled across today’s verse, Romans 5:3.\u00c2\u00a0 There is something wonderfully man-sized about the apostle’s response to his hardships.\u00c2\u00a0 Stand the test, friends, for the end is in sight.\u00c2\u00a0 Hope is on the horizon.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/em>A right approach to problems — whether great or small — is a wonderful thing to have hammered into your character.<\/p>\n Sometimes we think of the suffering in Romans 5 as the huge life catastrophes.\u00c2\u00a0 We forget that God’s grace-giving power is mostly for everyday sorts of tests and trials. . . .<\/p>\n What are your tests today?\u00c2\u00a0 Where do you need perseverance, staying power, and hope?\u00c2\u00a0 Ask God to help you step back and see a bigger picture than the trial right in front of your nose.\u00c2\u00a0 He uses everything in our lives to mold our character and make us more like his Son.<\/p>\n — Joni Eareckson Tada, Pearls of Great Price, <\/em>April 28 entry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What we needed was a new perspective.\u00c2\u00a0 Our gratitude had grown tired, and we needed grace. We found it when we stumbled across today’s verse, Romans 5:3.\u00c2\u00a0 There is something wonderfully man-sized about the apostle’s response to his hardships.\u00c2\u00a0 Stand the test, friends, for the end is in sight.\u00c2\u00a0 Hope is on the horizon.\u00c2\u00a0 A […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,10,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-trials","category-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","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=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}