{"id":4271,"date":"2020-02-04T09:43:53","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T14:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forglorysake.com\/?p=4271"},"modified":"2020-10-02T11:53:09","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T15:53:09","slug":"be-a-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/04\/be-a-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Be a Star!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Saints of God will never leave this world as they arrive. We are: sanctified, tried, tested and purified. The idea flows around creating a stable, solid product that will be beautiful and useful. A soul like Jesus&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s said believers are&nbsp;<strong>\u201cforged in the fire.\u201d<\/strong> Meaning<em>: given form and shape, especially by means of careful effort. Usually under duress&#8230; with heat. <\/em>But why? Why so tested? Why is this so important to God?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Besides the fact that He sees <em>diamonds in the rough<\/em>, and beauty in the ashes &#8211; He sees all that&#8217;s in me! He sees all that&#8217;s in you! Given the right heat at the right time, we <em>will<\/em> shine brilliantly:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>\u201cDon&#8217;t grumble or argue, so that you may be blameless, pure, children of God without blemish -though you live in a crooked and perverse society, in which you shine as lights in the world, by holding on to the Word of life&#8230;\u201d <\/em><\/strong>Philippians 2:14-16<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When we submit to God&#8217;s process (without arguing or grumbling &#x1f633;) as He brings us through trials <em>of every sort<\/em>&#8230; trusting His wisdom and temperature, we are working with His plan to mold and shape us into the beautiful bright Stars that will shine for His Glory!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>\u201cFor although darkness covers the earth and thick darkness the peoples; on you, ADONAI will rise; over you will be seen His Glory.\u201d<\/em><\/strong> \u202d\u202dIsaiah 60:2\u202c \u202dCJB\u202c\u202c <br><br><strong>ForGlorySake! <\/strong><em>-Anna<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forglorysake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/images-1.jpeg?resize=640%2C459&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6384\" width=\"640\" height=\"459\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saints of God will never leave this world as they arrive. We are: sanctified, tried, tested and purified. The idea flows around creating a stable, solid product that will be beautiful and useful. A soul like Jesus&#8217;. It&#8217;s said believers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/04\/be-a-star\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1420,9],"tags":[1493,1492,1122,1120,1121,834],"class_list":["post-4271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","category-spiritual-growth","tag-isaiah-602","tag-philippians-214-16","tag-sanctified","tag-shine","tag-stars","tag-trials"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paUt4s-16T","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4271"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6385,"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271\/revisions\/6385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}