{"id":139,"date":"2014-06-10T01:39:51","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T01:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/youcanbestrong.com\/?p=139"},"modified":"2014-06-11T15:37:59","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T15:37:59","slug":"a-test-of-the-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youcanbestrong.com\/?p=139","title":{"rendered":"A Test of the Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<table width=\"600\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>A Test of the Heart&#8230;\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nAbraham was asked to sacrifice his son Isaac (whom God said his lineage would come from) and he had a 3 days journey to dwell on that! Sheesh! Abraham acted in obedience and meanwhile did the best that he could to make God&#8217;s statement of lineage and sacrificing Isaac makes sense in his head&#8230; (Heb 11:17-19) and the outcome was VERY different.I have often made assumptions of how God is going to do something in my life, simply so I can deal with what He has asked of me or what is going on. Then, when I am finally obedient&#8230; I find that I am wonderfully wrong! What a gift! He goes beyond what I can comprehend and paints a portrait with colors that I didn&#8217;t even know existed.<\/p>\n<p>Step by step He brings us closer to Himself&#8230; what a Love \ud83d\ude42<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Test of the Heart&#8230;\u00a0 Abraham was asked to sacrifice his son Isaac (whom God said his lineage would come from) and he had a 3 days journey to dwell&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youcanbestrong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youcanbestrong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youcanbestrong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youcanbestrong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youcanbestrong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/youcanbestrong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"https:\/\/youcanbestrong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youcanbestrong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youcanbestrong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youcanbestrong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}