{"id":462,"date":"2018-10-20T11:01:31","date_gmt":"2018-10-20T11:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shop.honestreflections.net\/?p=462"},"modified":"2019-12-10T08:43:35","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T13:43:35","slug":"thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2018\/10\/20\/thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>&#8220;For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,&#8221; declares the LORD.&#8221;\u00a0 Isaiah 55:8<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nI&#8217;m reading several different authors at the moment.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure which one it was who put this thought in my head:<br \/>\n<em>Don&#8217;t limit God to what you know, what you have experienced.\u00a0 If you do you will have a very one dimensional God. \u00a0 (<\/em>My words, not a quote.)<br \/>\nI&#8217;m learning I have done exactly that.\u00a0 I have created a one dimensional God based on what I know from my life.\u00a0 Just because I haven&#8217;t experienced it doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s not an aspect of God.\u00a0 If I don&#8217;t know it, doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s not an aspect of God.<br \/>\nGod is personal to each of us.\u00a0 He shows up to each of us in different ways.\u00a0 I limit Him when I put Him into the confines of just what I know personally.<br \/>\nThe more I learn about God it makes me realize how much I have yet to learn. \u00a0 It makes me yearn to know more.\u00a0 I love even though I&#8217;ve been walking with God all my life. Even though\u00a0 I was born and raised in a Christ following home.\u00a0 I&#8217;m still seeking.\u00a0 I&#8217;m still searching to know Him deeper.<br \/>\nI have the privilege of working with people who just meet Jesus. I love how they tentatively ask questions they aren&#8217;t sure if they should ask.\u00a0 There is nothing more fulfilling than watching someone get to know Jesus.\u00a0 It&#8217;s exhilarating.\u00a0 It&#8217;s encouraging.\u00a0 It&#8217;s inspiring.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m just glad when you are on a journey with Christ it is never ending.\u00a0 No matter where I am in my walk with Him.\u00a0 It&#8217;s still exciting.\u00a0 Still exhilarating.\u00a0 Still encouraging.\u00a0 Still inspiring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,&#8221; declares the LORD.&#8221;\u00a0 Isaiah 55:8 I&#8217;m reading several different authors at the moment.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure which one it was who put this thought in my head: Don&#8217;t limit God to what you know, what you have experienced.\u00a0 If you do you&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2018\/10\/20\/thoughts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thoughts<\/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-462","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\/462","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=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1524,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions\/1524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}