{"id":1302,"date":"2009-10-11T07:00:02","date_gmt":"2009-10-11T11:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/?p=1302"},"modified":"2009-10-25T20:20:02","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T00:20:02","slug":"image-of-god-october-11-sunday-tidbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/image-of-god-october-11-sunday-tidbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Image of God, October 11 Sunday Tidbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1301\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1301\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1301\" title=\"Spencer's Sun\" src=\"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Spencers-Sun-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"Spencer's picture of the multi colored sun\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Spencers-Sun-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Spencers-Sun-768x559.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Spencers-Sun.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1301\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spencer&#39;s picture of the multi colored sun<\/p><\/div>\n<p>How do you picture God?\u00a0 Is God bright yellow and the center of your universe like the sun giving us what we need to live?\u00a0 Is God large overbearing, powerful and scary?\u00a0 Is God both and so you are confused by how to perceive Him?<!--more-->\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is very easy to get caught up in many different images of God especially due to your upbringing and past experience.\u00a0 My image of God is of a kind, loving, gentle, forgiving, all powerful, encouraging, generous being.\u00a0 Although I have read scriptures of people fearing the hand of the Lord it is not the image I have of God.\u00a0 If you are stuck with a frightening image try instead to imagine God as a loving parent figure who would lay down his life for\u00a0 you, forgive you, nurture you and love you unconditionally forever.\u00a0 For that is who God truly is, He gave the life of His Son Christ for us, He created and nurtures us, He forgives us, if only we ask.\u00a0 He loves YOU regardless of your acceptance of His love.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Today take a moment to conjure up your image of God.\u00a0 Know that He is near you and loves you just as you are right this very moment as you read this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you picture God?\u00a0 Is God bright yellow and the center of your universe like the sun giving us what we need to live?\u00a0 Is God large overbearing, powerful and scary?\u00a0 Is God both and so you are confused by how to perceive Him?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[107],"tags":[296,297,295,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}