{"id":8388,"date":"2020-04-02T22:16:33","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T02:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8388"},"modified":"2020-04-02T22:16:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T02:16:33","slug":"direction-comes-with-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8388","title":{"rendered":"Direction Comes with Joy."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Mason-26.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Mason-26.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Mason-26.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Mason-26-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Mason-26-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Joy is one of the ways the Lord confirms His Word to us.  He may tell us to do something difficult, but because His direction comes with joy, we believe Him and are motivated to obey.  If we forget the joy He gave, we&#8217;ll lose the power to carry out His commands.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Mike Mason, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/champagne_for_the_soul.html\">Champagne for the Soul<\/a><\/em>, p. 160<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Keukenhof, Holland, April 1999<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joy is one of the ways the Lord confirms His Word to us. He may tell us to do something difficult, but because His direction comes with joy, we believe Him and are motivated to obey. If we forget the joy He gave, we&#8217;ll lose the power to carry out His commands. &#8212; Mike Mason, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guidance","category-joy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8388","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=8388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8390,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8388\/revisions\/8390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}