{"id":2679,"date":"2023-06-28T01:55:53","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T01:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/?p=2679"},"modified":"2023-06-22T16:05:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T16:05:56","slug":"faith-understood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/faith-understood\/","title":{"rendered":"Faith Understood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Wednesday, June 28<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Faith Understood \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>And it is impossible to please God without faith. Anyone who wants to come to him must believe that God exists and that he rewards those who sincerely seek him. <\/em><strong>Hebrews 1:6<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In life, not that many things are certain. We\u2019re not guaranteed an easy time, prosperous blessing or success in all our plans. We don\u2019t even know what will happen tomorrow, or how many days are allotted to us. Even the weather can be unpredictable! How, with so many uncertainties, how are we to find solid ground on which to build our lives? We do this because our hope is in God and not in ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>We may at times go through periods of darkness, confusion and struggle. Sometimes it might even feel as if God has withdrawn His Presence from us. We are going on, but it seems that this is without God\u2019s guidance. It is in these times that I believe we can stand on what I now like to call \u2018the certainty principle\u2019. We may now know exactly what is happening to us, but we know that there is One who knows. We can find rest. It\u2019s in these times of darkness that we learn to live by faith and not by sight. We get to exercise faith and really please God, for it says that \u2018<em>without faith it is impossible to please Him\u2019<\/em> (Hebrews 11:6). When we put our trust in Him, even when we can\u2019t make sense of the situation ourselves, we really do please God.<\/p>\n<p>Be encouraged to remember God\u2019s \u2018certainty principle\u2019! It can help us to turn dark times into times where we grow in faith, and into opportunities to please our Father in heaven, who sees, knows and understands absolutely everything that goes on in this universe.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prayer for today<\/strong>: <em>O Lord, thank You for being there for me always. Please help me put my hand in Your hand when I don\u2019t understand, when I struggle or get confused. I choose to trust You now with all the things I don\u2019t know. Thank You that You are my God. Amen.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, June 28 Faith Understood \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And it is impossible to please God without faith. Anyone who wants to come to him must believe that God exists and that he rewards those who sincerely seek him. Hebrews 1:6\u00a0 In life, not that many things are certain. We\u2019re not guaranteed an easy time, prosperous blessing or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679","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=2679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2690,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679\/revisions\/2690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}