{"id":4311,"date":"2021-09-09T13:24:45","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T13:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/?p=4311"},"modified":"2021-09-09T13:24:45","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T13:24:45","slug":"perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/?p=4311","title":{"rendered":"Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Send your light and your truth; let them lead me.<br>Let them bring me to your holy mountain,<br>to your dwelling place. (Psalm 43:3 CSB)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do you ever feel like your life is a mountain to get over?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I know I have had times like this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But that is not how God meant life to be for us. Even in the midst of turmoil and suffering, life does not have to be a mountain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These old but very profound words need thought. God is leading us to his light and truth. He is making them manifest in us, if we will but let Him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We may look at life as a mountain to get over or we can look at it as a summit to achieve. Pain may be inevitable, but our outlook upon life can change so that it is not suffering. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reaching God\u2019s summit means being in His dwelling place. A truly valuable mountain to climb. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I know these are but words. But words have impact and thoughts can change our perspective. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Send your light and your truth; let them lead me.Let them bring me to your holy mountain,to your dwelling place. (Psalm 43:3 CSB) Do you ever feel like your life is a mountain to get over? I know I have had times like this. But that is not how God meant life to be for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4312,"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4311\/revisions\/4312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xplorechrist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}