{"id":4266,"date":"2009-03-24T21:06:16","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T01:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/april2009\/?p=59"},"modified":"2009-03-24T21:06:16","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T01:06:16","slug":"look-again-and-consecrate-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2009\/03\/24\/look-again-and-consecrate-2\/","title":{"rendered":"LOOK AGAIN AND CONSECRATE"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>If God so clothe the grass of the field &#8230; shall He not<br \/>\n     much more clothe you?<\/p>\n<p>     &#8212; Matthew 6:30<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A simple statement of Jesus is always a puzzle to us if we are not<br \/>\nsimple. How are we going to be simple with the simplicity of Jesus?<br \/>\nBy receiving His Spirit, recognizing and relying on Him, obeying Him<br \/>\nas He brings the word of God, and life will become amazingly simple.<br \/>\n&#8220;Consider,&#8221; says Jesus, &#8220;how much more your Father Who clothes the<br \/>\ngrass of the field will clothe you, if you keep your relationship<br \/>\nright with Him.&#8221; Every time we have gone back in spiritual communion<br \/>\nit has been because we have impertinently known better than Jesus<br \/>\nChrist. We have allowed the cares of the world to come in, and have<br \/>\nforgotten the &#8220;much more&#8221; of our Heavenly Father.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Behold the fowls of the air&#8221; &#8211; their main aim is to obey the<br \/>\nprinciple of life that is in them and God looks after them. Jesus<br \/>\nsays that if you are rightly related to Him and obey His Spirit that<br \/>\nis in you, God will look after your &#8216;feathers.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Consider the lilies of the field&#8221; &#8211; they grow where they are put.<br \/>\nMany of us refuse to grow where we are put, consequently we take root<br \/>\nnowhere. Jesus says that if we obey the life God has given us, He<br \/>\nwill look after all the other things. Has Jesus Christ told us a lie?<br \/>\nIf we are not experiencing the &#8220;much more,&#8221; it is because we are not<br \/>\nobeying the life God has given us, we are taken up with confusing<br \/>\nconsiderations. How much time have we taken up worrying God with<br \/>\nquestions when we should have been absolutely free to concentrate on<br \/>\nHis work? Consecration means the continual separating of myself to<br \/>\none particular thing. We cannot consecrate once and for all. Am I<br \/>\ncontinually separating myself to consider God every day of my life?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If God so clothe the grass of the field &#8230; shall He not much more clothe you? &#8212; Matthew 6:30 A simple statement of Jesus is always a puzzle to us if we are not simple. How are we going to be simple with the simplicity of Jesus? By receiving His Spirit, recognizing and relying&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}