{"id":12740,"date":"2025-06-25T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/?p=12740"},"modified":"2025-06-09T10:44:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T15:44:40","slug":"great-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2025\/06\/25\/great-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One-minute read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"788\" src=\"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Green-Hello-Monday-Greeting-Facebook-Post.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12741\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Green-Hello-Monday-Greeting-Facebook-Post.jpg 940w, https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Green-Hello-Monday-Greeting-Facebook-Post-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Green-Hello-Monday-Greeting-Facebook-Post-768x644.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>\u201cThe remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Oswald Chambers<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hoping for God\u2019s salvation and living by His commandments demonstrates a reverent awe for the Lord, as well as a proper respect for the Creator of the world. Knowing we\u2019ve done what God instructed us to do gives us great peace. But when we knowingly go against the Almighty\u2019s precepts, we will not experience the peace that surpasses all understanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a golfer, the game tests integrity more than any other game because you call penalties on yourself. If you drop a stroke from your score, no one notices. However, I realize that God knows, which motivates me to record the correct score. At the end of the round, when I tally up my card, knowing I kept an honest score gives me peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Life works the same way. When we acknowledge God\u2019s all-knowing presence in our lives, it helps us recognize and confess our sin and receive His grace and peace. Living in sin brings turmoil, but when we lay it at the foot of the cross, we find the peace only Jesus can give.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Prayer:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Lord,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Thank You for giving us peace that surpasses all understanding when we align our hearts with Yours.&nbsp; Search our hearts and reveal areas we need to confess so we can receive the grace You offer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">IJNIP. Amen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One-minute read. \u201cThe remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.\u201d Oswald Chambers Hoping for God\u2019s salvation and living by His commandments demonstrates a reverent awe for the Lord, as well as a proper respect for the Creator&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2025\/06\/25\/great-peace\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Great Peace<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12740"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12753,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12740\/revisions\/12753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}