{"id":2828,"date":"2015-05-31T09:07:07","date_gmt":"2015-05-31T14:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=2828"},"modified":"2015-05-31T09:07:07","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T14:07:07","slug":"the-problem-with-miracles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=2828","title":{"rendered":"THE PROBLEM WITH MIRACLES"},"content":{"rendered":"

It seems that I cannot make it through most days without one or more miracles.<\/p>\n

God has to pull something again and again for me to just get by.<\/p>\n

And a miracle is something that we can’t explain any other way, “but God”.<\/p>\n

So what is my problem with that?<\/p>\n

My nemesis is a tendency to say, “What’s wrong with me, that I can’t accomplish stuff and get things done like other people I know?”<\/p>\n

And God says, “What’s wrong with you is that you’re trying to accomplish stuff and get things done like other people.\u00a0 But I want you to depend on Me, so I get the credit and the glory for anything good in your life.”<\/p>\n

So what can I say?<\/p>\n

Okay, God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It seems that I cannot make it through most days without one or more miracles. God has to pull something again and again for me to just get by. And a miracle is something that we can’t explain any other way, “but God”. So what is my problem with that? My nemesis is a tendency […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith_based","category-inspire_lifter","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2828"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2829,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2828\/revisions\/2829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}