{"id":430405,"date":"2024-06-27T02:40:05","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T21:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.com\/?p=430405"},"modified":"2024-06-27T02:40:08","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T21:10:08","slug":"personal-deliverance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2024\/06\/27\/personal-deliverance\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Deliverance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5c37404050b6f9ae0951072e36afd2cd\"><strong>\u201cDo not be afraid of them, for I am with you and will rescue you,\u201d declares the Lord. \u2014 Jeremiah 1:8<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the book of Jeremiah, God poses a question with a terrifying answer: \u201cShould you then seek great things for yourself? Do not seek them. For I will bring disaster on all people.\u201d But he also makes a promise: \u201cWherever you go I will let you escape with your life\u201d (Jeremiah 45:5). This is all God promises his children\u2014that wherever he sends us, he will guard our lives. Our personal possessions are a matter of indifference to him; we have to hold them loosely. If we don\u2019t, there will be panic and heartbreak and distress.<br>God is equally indifferent to our sense of what we deserve. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus suggests that when we are on his errands, there is no time to stand up for ourselves or to worry about whether people are treating us justly: \u201cBlessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me\u201d (Matthew 5:11). To look for justice for ourselves is to be distracted from devotion to our Lord. Never look for justice in this world, but never cease to give it.<br>If we are devoted to Jesus Christ, we know that we have no control over what we encounter. Our Lord\u2019s message for us is this: \u201cKeep working steadily at what I\u2019ve told you to do, and I will guard your life. If you try to guard it yourself, you will remove yourself from my deliverance.\u201d The most devout among us become atheistic in this regard. Rather than believing in God, we enthrone common sense and tack God\u2019s name onto it. We lean on our own understanding, instead of trusting him with all our heart.<br>By Oswald Chambers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDo not be afraid of them, for I am with you and will rescue you,\u201d declares the Lord. \u2014 Jeremiah 1:8 In the book of Jeremiah, God poses a question with a terrifying answer: \u201cShould you then seek great things for yourself? Do not seek them. For I will bring disaster on all people.\u201d But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[686],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-devotion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}