{"id":699,"date":"2009-01-07T23:14:39","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T03:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2009\/01\/07\/renewed-vision\/"},"modified":"2009-01-07T23:14:39","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T03:14:39","slug":"renewed-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=699","title":{"rendered":"Renewed Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most poisonous of all Satan&#8217;s whispers is simply, &#8220;Things will never change.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 That lie kills expectation, trapping our heart forever in the present.\u00c2\u00a0 To keep desire alive and flourishing, we must renew our vision for what lies ahead.\u00c2\u00a0 Things will not always be like this.\u00c2\u00a0 Jesus has promised to &#8220;make all things new.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 Eye has not seen, ear has not heard all that God has in store for his lovers, which does not mean &#8220;we have no clue so don&#8217;t even try to imagine,&#8221; but rather, <em>you cannot outdream God.<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0 Desire is kept alive by imagination, the antidote to resignation.\u00c2\u00a0 We will need imagination, which is to say, we will need <em>hope.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Brent Curtis and John Eldredge, <em>The Sacred Romance, <\/em>p. 156<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most poisonous of all Satan&#8217;s whispers is simply, &#8220;Things will never change.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 That lie kills expectation, trapping our heart forever in the present.\u00c2\u00a0 To keep desire alive and flourishing, we must renew our vision for what lies ahead.\u00c2\u00a0 Things will not always be like this.\u00c2\u00a0 Jesus has promised to &#8220;make all things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,2,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-growth","category-inspiration","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699","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=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}