{"id":121,"date":"2017-05-04T19:12:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T19:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cherylrostek.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/04\/may-4-2017\/"},"modified":"2017-05-04T19:12:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T19:12:00","slug":"may-4-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherylrostek.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/04\/may-4-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"May 4, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>I really enjoy Philip Yancey, and these insights from his book <i>Vanishing Grace <\/i>are no exception.&nbsp; (from the section on being \u201cgrace dispensers\u201d, p 112)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u2026.Many questions that we throw at God return to us like a boomerang.&nbsp; Consider for example the excellent question, \u201cWhy doesn\u2019t God do something about global hunger?\u201d The angels\u2019 words after Jesus\u2019 ascension echo through the centuries: \u201cWhy do you stand here looking into the sky?\u201d&nbsp; We, Jesus\u2019 followers are the agents assigned to carry out God\u2019s will on earth.&nbsp; Too easily we expect God to do something <i>for<\/i>us when instead God wants to do it <i>through<\/i> us.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>My question to God following reading this was, \u201cGod, what do you want to do through me?\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The reply, \u201cThat is why I am teaching you to rest &#8212;&nbsp; so I can stir your passions and so you can actually hear me when I speak.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Point taken, God.<o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really enjoy Philip Yancey, and these insights from his book Vanishing Grace are no exception.&nbsp; (from the section on being \u201cgrace dispensers\u201d, p 112) \u2026.Many questions that we throw at God return to us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>May 4, 2017 - Cheryl Rostek<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cherylrostek.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/04\/may-4-2017\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"May 4, 2017 - Cheryl Rostek\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I really enjoy Philip Yancey, and these insights from his book Vanishing Grace are no exception.&nbsp; 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