{"id":6851,"date":"2018-08-16T22:32:27","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T02:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=6851"},"modified":"2018-08-16T22:50:37","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T02:50:37","slug":"god-never-turns-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=6851","title":{"rendered":"God Never Turns Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Jersak-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Jersak-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6857\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Jersak-3.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Jersak-3-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Jersak-3-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even when we <em>turn away<\/em> from God, he is always there, confronting us with his love.  God is always <em>toward<\/em> us.  <em>Always<\/em> for us.  He comes, not as a condemning judge, but as a great physician.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus was saving us from Satan, sin and death; not saving us from God.<\/p>\n<p>God <em>never<\/em> turns away from humanity.  God is perfectly revealed in Jesus.  When did Jesus ever turn away from sinful humanity and say, &#8220;I am too holy and perfect to look on your sin?&#8221;  Did Jesus ever do anything like that?  No.  The Pharisees did that.  They were too holy and turned away.  God is like Jesus, not like a Pharisee.<\/p>\n<p>The gospel is this:  when we turn away, he turns toward us.  When we run away, he confronts us with his love.  When we murder God, he confronts us with his mercy and forgiveness.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Bradley Jersak, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/more_christlike_god.html\">A More Christlike God<\/a><\/em>, p. 294<\/p>\n<p>[Photo: Heidi&#8217;s Alp, Switzerland, September 2002]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even when we turn away from God, he is always there, confronting us with his love. God is always toward us. Always for us. He comes, not as a condemning judge, but as a great physician. Jesus was saving us from Satan, sin and death; not saving us from God. God never turns away from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-love","category-redemption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6851","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=6851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}