{"id":4272,"date":"2009-03-27T23:16:41","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T03:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/april2009\/?p=92"},"modified":"2009-03-27T23:16:41","modified_gmt":"2009-03-28T03:16:41","slug":"inferior-misgivings-about-jesus-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2009\/03\/27\/inferior-misgivings-about-jesus-2\/","title":{"rendered":"INFERIOR MISGIVINGS ABOUT JESUS"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Sir, Thou hast nothing to draw with.<\/p>\n<p>     &#8212; John 4:11<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I am impressed with the wonder of what God says, but He cannot<br \/>\nexpect me really to live it out in the details of my life!&#8221; When it<br \/>\ncomes to facing Jesus Christ on His own merits, our attitude is one<br \/>\nof pious superiority &#8211; Your ideals are high and they impress us, but<br \/>\nin touch with actual things, it cannot be done. Each of us thinks<br \/>\nabout Jesus in this way in some particular. These misgivings about<br \/>\nJesus start from the amused questions put to us when we talk of our<br \/>\ntransactions with God &#8211; Where are you going to get your money from?<br \/>\nHow are you going to be looked after? Or they start from ourselves<br \/>\nwhen we tell Jesus that our case is a bit too hard for Him. It is all<br \/>\nvery well to say &#8220;Trust in the Lord,&#8221; but a man must live, and Jesus<br \/>\nhas nothing to draw with &#8211; nothing whereby to give us these things.<br \/>\nBeware of the pious fraud in you which says &#8211; I have no misgivings<br \/>\nabout Jesus, only about myself. None of us ever had misgivings about<br \/>\nourselves; we know exactly what we cannot do, but we do have<br \/>\nmisgivings about Jesus. We are rather hurt at the idea that He can do<br \/>\nwhat we cannot.<\/p>\n<p>My misgivings arise from the fact that I ransack my own person to<br \/>\nfind out how He will he able to do it. My questions spring from the<br \/>\ndepths of my own inferiority. If I detect these misgivings in myself,<br \/>\nlet me bring them to the light and confess them &#8211; &#8220;Lord, I have had<br \/>\nmisgivings about Thee, I have not believed in Thy wits apart from my<br \/>\nown; I have not believed in Thine almighty power apart from my finite<br \/>\nunderstanding of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir, Thou hast nothing to draw with. &#8212; John 4:11 &#8220;I am impressed with the wonder of what God says, but He cannot expect me really to live it out in the details of my life!&#8221; When it comes to facing Jesus Christ on His own merits, our attitude is one of pious superiority &#8211;&#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-4272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4272","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=4272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}