{"id":7585,"date":"2023-10-05T12:03:51","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T16:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/?p=7585"},"modified":"2023-10-05T12:17:41","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T16:17:41","slug":"look-what-the-kids-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/05\/look-what-the-kids-did\/","title":{"rendered":"Look what the kids did!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cWomen, however, will be saved through childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and holiness, with self-control.\u201d <\/em><\/strong>1 Timothy 2:15 – Saved is \u201cSozo<\/em>\u201d- to be complete, made whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can relate. My children continue a work in me that God began to make me whole<\/strong>… a whole lot<\/em> more like Jesus! Becoming a mother showed me how weak and young my faith really was. It\u2019s an awesome job – both thrilling and humbling, challenging me even today to seek Christ more than anything else on earth.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once I married, everything about being a parent appealed to me. I so wanted to get it right. David and I prayed for God to help us please Him<\/em> in every aspect.\u00a0We prayed to glorify Him<\/em>\u2026 the problem was sin nature kept popping up. Personally, it was all I could do to daily repent and try harder next time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Running to God again and again taught my heart submission. I kept reminding myself that His Sprit was leading us and His grace would cover us<\/em>, and somehow He\u2019d use my weaknesses. My daily focus became: \u201cBe thankful always\u201d<\/strong><\/em> and \u201cStudy to show yourself approved.\u201d<\/strong><\/em> He would just have to work out the rest.

So\u2026 everything went smoothly and we all grew up perfect.\u00a0😂😂 Hmm there\u2019s the rub. That\u2019s not exactly what happened (add tears or laughter here), and I became so hurt, frustrated, and angry. Hadn\u2019t we purposed? Hadn\u2019t we prayed? Then quietly God reminded me, \u201cMy ways are bigger, My thoughts are higher<\/strong>. Your work is to obey, Mine is to complete what I\u2019ve started in you -and in them.<\/strong>\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh the peace that comes (no matter what you see) knowing<\/strong> -really knowing you can trust Him! \u201ctis so sweet to trust in Jesu<\/em>s.\u201d ForGlorySake.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cbeing confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.\u201d<\/em><\/strong> Philippians 1:6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWomen, however, will be saved through childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and holiness, with self-control.\u201d 1 Timothy 2:15 – Saved is \u201cSozo\u201d- to be complete, made whole. I can relate. My children continue a work in me that … Continue reading →<\/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":[3,1420,9,10],"tags":[1979,1327,929,541,1446],"class_list":["post-7585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children","category-devotional","category-spiritual-growth","category-trust","tag-childbirth","tag-complete","tag-god-can-2","tag-motherhood","tag-philippians-16"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paUt4s-1Yl","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7585","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=7585"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7602,"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7585\/revisions\/7602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}