{"id":7494,"date":"2018-11-22T23:08:29","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T03:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=7494"},"modified":"2018-11-23T23:21:51","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T03:21:51","slug":"siding-with-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=7494","title":{"rendered":"Siding With God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Mason-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Mason-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Mason-11.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Mason-11-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Mason-11-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Joy instinctively sides with God in everything, against human circumstances, against transient feelings, against common sense.  Common sense does not yield joy; joy is supernatural sense.  To attain the supernatural I must adopt God&#8217;s point of view.  Therefore I resolve to let God be right about everything.  Instead of being sorry for myself, I let God be right for allowing my sickness or my difficulties to continue.  Instead of worrying, I let God be right for not immediately intervening.<\/p>\n<p>Joy comes from thinking God&#8217;s thoughts, doing His will, looking at everything through His eyes by the power of the indwelling Spirit.  To embrace entirely God&#8217;s point of view, however briefly, is to be joyful.  This is true even when God&#8217;s point of view involves sorrow over suffering.  Joy is not proud, detached, or affected.  It mixes well with suffering; it comprehends and effectively ministers to loss.  Even in the midst of compassion for affliction, everyone who sides with God remains joyful.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Mike Mason, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/champagne_for_the_soul.html\">Champagne for the Soul<\/a><\/em>, p. 109-110<\/p>\n<p>Photo: South Riding, Virginia, November 22, 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joy instinctively sides with God in everything, against human circumstances, against transient feelings, against common sense. Common sense does not yield joy; joy is supernatural sense. To attain the supernatural I must adopt God&#8217;s point of view. Therefore I resolve to let God be right about everything. Instead of being sorry for myself, I let [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joy","category-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7494","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=7494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}