{"id":473718,"date":"2025-03-03T02:40:25","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T21:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.com\/?p=473718"},"modified":"2025-03-03T02:40:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T21:10:26","slug":"the-unrelieved-quest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2025\/03\/03\/the-unrelieved-quest\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unrelieved Quest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-fdba3a7b47d35a3077f0085e6510e524 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Jesus said, \u201cFeed my sheep.\u201d \u2014 John 21:17<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is love in the making: Peter, having confessed how deeply he loves Jesus, is told to add action to emotion and feed God\u2019s sheep. The love of God was not created; love is God\u2019s very nature. When we receive the Holy Spirit, we are united with God so that his love is manifested in us. But this isn\u2019t the end of the story. The ultimate goal is that we may be one with the Father as Jesus is. \u201cHoly Father, protect them by the power of your name, the name you gave me, so that they may be one as we are one\u201d (John 17:11). What kind of oneness is this? Such a oneness that the Father\u2019s purpose for the Son becomes the Son\u2019s purpose for us: \u201cAs the Father has sent me, I am sending you\u201d (20:21).<br>After Peter recognized the depth of his love for Jesus, Jesus made his point: Spend it. Don\u2019t declare how much you love me. Don\u2019t testify about the marvelous revelation you\u2019ve had. \u201cFeed my sheep.\u201d This is a challenging request, because Jesus has some extraordinarily funny sheep! Bedraggled, dirty sheep; awkward, headbutting sheep; sheep that have gone astray (Luke 15:3\u20137). God\u2019s love pays no attention to such quirks and differences. If I love my Lord, I have no business being guided by personal preference. I simply have to feed his sheep. There is no relief and no release from this part of the call.<br>Beware of letting your natural human sympathy decide which sheep you\u2019ll feed. You are called to spend God\u2019s love, not pass off a counterfeit version of it. That would end in blaspheming the love of God.<br>By Oswald Chambers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus said, \u201cFeed my sheep.\u201d \u2014 John 21:17 This is love in the making: Peter, having confessed how deeply he loves Jesus, is told to add action to emotion and feed God\u2019s sheep. The love of God was not created; love is God\u2019s very nature. When we receive the Holy Spirit, we are united with [&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-473718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-daily-devotion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473718","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=473718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}