{"id":475373,"date":"2025-03-13T02:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T20:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.com\/?p=475373"},"modified":"2025-03-13T02:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T20:57:10","slug":"his-abandonment-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2025\/03\/13\/his-abandonment-to-us\/","title":{"rendered":"His Abandonment to Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f5c669dd6325554754dc4cdf67b6ffd9 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. \u2014 John 3:16<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We will never understand how to abandon ourselves to God until we understand how God abandoned himself to us. When God gave his Son in love to the world, he didn\u2019t give just a part of himself. He gave all of himself, absolutely and entirely. He gave with total abandon, holding nothing back. We must beware of talking about abandonment if we don\u2019t really know about it, and we won\u2019t know\u2014not until we realize the full meaning of John 3:16.<br>That God gave with total abandon is the very essence of salvation. Salvation isn\u2019t merely deliverance from sin or the experience of personal holiness. Salvation is deliverance out of self and into union with God. What I experience of salvation may be a sense of personal holiness, but what salvation actually means is that the Spirit of God has brought me into contact with God himself. I am thrilled by the contact with something infinitely greater than myself, and I wonder how it is possible. It is possible because God has given himself completely for our sake.<br>Abandonment is never self-conscious. If we are abandoned to God, our whole life is his. There is no awareness of striving to let go, no struggling to abandon. We aren\u2019t torn between our old life and our new. We are simply given over to our Lord. Our entire existence is wrapped up in him, and the consequences of abandoning ourselves never enter into our thinking.<br>By Oswald Chambers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. \u2014 John 3:16 We will never understand how to abandon ourselves to God until we understand how God abandoned himself to us. When God gave his Son in love [&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-475373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-daily-devotion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475373","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=475373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}