{"id":1613,"date":"2022-01-29T01:19:47","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T01:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/?p=1613"},"modified":"2022-01-22T16:35:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T16:35:44","slug":"press-on-to-know-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/press-on-to-know-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Press On to know God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Jan 29-30<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Press On to know God<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oh, that we might know the Lord! Let us press on to know Him. He will respond to us as surely as the arrival of dawn or the coming of rains in early spring.<strong>\u00a0Hosea 6:3<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When something bad happens in the life of a new believer, they will often question God saying, \u201cLord, why is this happening to me?\u201d When something bad happens in the life of a seasoned believer, they will often say, \u201cLord, why is this happening to me?\u201d Same question, but different motivations. Those new to the journey with Christ may think it unreasonable that a bad thing happened. But the mature Christian knows problems are part of life in a fallen world and then clings to the latter portion of today\u2019s verse which says \u201cHe will respond to us surely as the arrival of dawn\u201d. This\u00a0<em>why<\/em>\u00a0question is to discern from God what he can learn from the difficult situation\u2014how he might grow in faith. In the end we are pressing on to know the Lord and remain firm during the testing season of life.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph was immature. He was favored by his father and with that, it can be assumed he felt invincible. When the teenage Joseph was sold by his brothers into slavery, he no doubt asked the \u201cWhy?\u201d question. At first, he may have thought, \u201cWhat did I do to deserve this?\u201d But later, his \u201cWhy?\u201d likely turned into, \u201cOh, now I see why!\u201d He realized God had sent him to Egypt to prepare a place for Jacob\u2019s family to escape the famine in Canaan. But in order to be fruitful in this place and accomplish the job God has in store for him, Joseph needed to grow up. The journey from the pit to the palace was one of growth.<\/p>\n<p>Notice again, the same answer but at different times. When you experience difficulties in life, it\u2019s not wrong to ask \u201cWhy?\u201d Just make sure you\u2019re asking for the right reason.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prayer for today<\/strong>:\u00a0<em>Generous Father, God of abundant blessings and grace You have told me to ask you for whatever I need. You said that if I ask, it will be given. If I seek, I will find. If I knock, the door will be opened to me. I ask you for guidance and direction now, Lord, and pray I will not fail on this journey because I am looking to You. You are a perfectly good Father who only ever gives good gifts to his children. You love to give good gifts to those who ask. As your humble child, I ask for the gift of wisdom today. Through Jesus Christ, our Lord, Amen.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan 29-30 Press On to know God Oh, that we might know the Lord! Let us press on to know Him. He will respond to us as surely as the arrival of dawn or the coming of rains in early spring.\u00a0Hosea 6:3 When something bad happens in the life of a new believer, they will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1627,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions\/1627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}