{"id":476,"date":"2008-05-05T19:56:02","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T23:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/05\/05\/something-better-is-brewing\/"},"modified":"2008-05-05T19:56:02","modified_gmt":"2008-05-05T23:56:02","slug":"something-better-is-brewing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=476","title":{"rendered":"Something Better Is Brewing."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is at least some of what it means to &#8220;wait on the Lord.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 Waiting on God does <em>not <\/em>mean passive indifference &#8212; hanging around and doing nothing.\u00c2\u00a0 It has more to do with saying no to impulsive, spur-of-the-moment actions or decisions, and by so doing, saying yes to something you know will satisfy much better down the line.\u00c2\u00a0 Those who have not yet learned how to wait on the Lord may tend to indulge in something immediate that only half satisfies.\u00c2\u00a0 But Christians who have fostered a degree of self-control &#8212; Christians who know God better &#8212; don&#8217;t mind putting pleasure on hold.\u00c2\u00a0 They know something better is brewing down the line.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Joni Eareckson Tada, <em>Pearls of Great Price, <\/em>May 2 entry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is at least some of what it means to &#8220;wait on the Lord.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 Waiting on God does not mean passive indifference &#8212; hanging around and doing nothing.\u00c2\u00a0 It has more to do with saying no to impulsive, spur-of-the-moment actions or decisions, and by so doing, saying yes to something you know will satisfy much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,9,33,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letting-go","category-life","category-obedience","category-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","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=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}