{"id":1212,"date":"2023-12-30T10:25:25","date_gmt":"2023-12-30T16:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeinterceptedbygrace.com\/?p=1212"},"modified":"2023-12-30T10:35:09","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T16:35:09","slug":"the-splendor-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeinterceptedbygrace.com\/the-splendor-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"The Splendor of God"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-black-color has-text-color is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\" style=\"font-size:18px\">\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-1-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e938f0e70ef1a7b23a96b0f5734f64bd\" style=\"font-size:18px\"><em>\u201cPay attention to this, Job. Stop and consider the wonderful miracles of God! Do you know how God controls the storm and causes the lightning to flash from his clouds? Do you understand how he moves the clouds with wonderful perfection and skill? When you are sweltering in your clothes and the south wind dies down and everything is still, he makes the skies reflect the heat like a bronze mirror. Can you do that?\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<cite>Job 37:14-18<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6410c3f70f68056f61e77036a9932503\" style=\"font-size:18px\">As we reflect on this past year, let\u2019s not forget how far God has brought us. Whether we have been flooded with blessings or had our faith greatly tested, we made it and are walking into another year!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4b5882ad497a8e2fdb528e5391f8e920\" style=\"font-size:18px\">There is no doubt that we\u2019ll face more challenges next year. And as we have no way of controlling what will come our way, we can control how we respond. We can stop and smell the roses, even when life isn\u2019t smelling so good. We can take a minute to watch the clouds and wonder how they stay afloat. We can stand in awe of the thunderstorm, watching the synchronized mystery of the lightning, thunder and rain. We can find refreshment in a sunset at the end of a hot and sweaty day. And even when \u201cwe cannot imagine the true power of the Almighty\u201d (Job 37:23) in the things we cannot see,  we<em>\u00a0can\u00a0<\/em>be confident that God\u2019s glory and power surrounds us and that he is in control.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1024daf9ed1818a9c2e9305ec6a45d80\" style=\"font-size:18px\">So as we go into next year, let\u2019s not just wish for a better year, but let\u2019s pay attention and be diligent in looking for the splendor of God, and let\u2019s look forward to letting God do what only He can do!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-72f04dac17ec285d92dc4854141bb845\" style=\"font-size:18px\"><em>#SaturdaySoulSearch<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPay attention to this, Job. Stop and consider the wonderful miracles of God! Do you know how God controls the storm and causes the lightning to flash from his clouds? Do you understand how he moves the clouds with wonderful perfection and skill? When you are sweltering in your clothes and the south wind dies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,36,111],"tags":[129,25,128,131,69,22,46,99,130],"class_list":["post-1212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christian-living","category-encouragement","category-saturday-soul-search","tag-blessed","tag-faith","tag-gift","tag-glory-of-god","tag-holy-spirit","tag-hope","tag-joy","tag-love","tag-new-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeinterceptedbygrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeinterceptedbygrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeinterceptedbygrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeinterceptedbygrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeinterceptedbygrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lifeinterceptedbygrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1223,"href":"https:\/\/lifeinterceptedbygrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions\/1223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeinterceptedbygrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeinterceptedbygrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeinterceptedbygrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeinterceptedbygrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}