{"id":4053,"date":"2016-03-18T05:24:55","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T05:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/?p=4053"},"modified":"2016-03-18T05:24:55","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T05:24:55","slug":"faith-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2016\/03\/18\/faith-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"Faith \/ Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Flip sides of the same coin..\u00a0 I find myself too focused on the latter at the moment.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I’ve had some digestive issues since around December and now doctors want to do a colonoscopy to look for a potential tumor.\u00a0 And I don’t even know if I’ll have medical coverage for the procedure.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I want to have faith knowing that nothing happens without God’s permission, that God is ultimately in control of our life, and even if he were to call me home, somehow he would take care of those who would remain.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I find it no coincidence that this pops up right after I am accepted into church.\u00a0 I wonder if this is not God’s way of saying, “I welcomed you back, are you REALLY back?”\u00a0 If I am then I should be able to find peace in spite of everything.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sometimes there are times when God doesn’t seem to be speaking to me.\u00a0 This is one of them.\u00a0 Something I do sometimes when I feel like I really need a word from God is to pray on what is troubling me and then randomly open the Bible and read and it seems often when I do this I’ll open to a passage that just nails whatever it is troubling me, but tonight, no joy.\u00a0 I can’t relate what I’m finding to my situation.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I turn on KCIS 630AM, a station that usually has various online Christian broadcasts, on-air sermons, or Christian talk, but instead tonight it is playing music and only instrumentals at that.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I ask myself is God not speaking or am I just not hearing?\u00a0 And I pray, “God open the eyes and ears of my heart to hear you and what you command for me.” but nothing seems to be happening.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This feeling isn’t new.\u00a0 I felt the same thing for the first month I spent in solitary confinement in prison and it seemed for the first month God didn’t speak, but when he did, it was clear he had been with me all along.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In that instance, I now feel God was preparing my heart to be receptive, and I hope that is what he is doing now.\u00a0 I want my life to be ruled by faith not fear.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Flip sides of the same coin..\u00a0 I find myself too focused on the latter at the moment. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I’ve had some digestive issues since around December and now doctors want to do a colonoscopy to look for a potential … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpautop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}