{"id":479876,"date":"2025-04-04T02:21:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T20:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.com\/?p=479876"},"modified":"2025-04-04T02:21:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T20:51:01","slug":"spiritual-grit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2025\/04\/04\/spiritual-grit\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual Grit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-550d1f11574e4b17c62953a67bef4361 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A time is coming and in fact has come when you will be scattered. \u2014 John 16:32<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jesus isn\u2019t rebuking the disciples in this passage: he knows that their faith is real. But he also knows that their faith is disturbed. The disciples are scattered to their own interests, interests that have nothing to do with Jesus Christ. Their faith isn\u2019t at work in the world in the way it should be.<br>God allowed the disciples to be scattered for a reason: so that they might develop spiritual grit. After we\u2019ve been perfectly related to God in sanctification, we must learn to apply our faith to the actual stuff of life. Like the disciples, we will be scattered\u2014not geographically, but emotionally. In this state, we will discover what internal death to God\u2019s blessings means. Are we prepared for this experience? It\u2019s not something we choose; it\u2019s a discipline God puts us through. Until we\u2019ve been through this experience, our faith is bolstered up by feelings and by blessings. After we\u2019ve been through it, no matter where God places us, no matter our emotional state, we can praise him that all is well.<br>\u201cYou will leave me all alone\u201d (John 16:32). Have we left Jesus alone because our circumstances are dark? God is never in a hurry. Darkness comes through his sovereign will. If we wait, we\u2019ll see what he\u2019s trying to show us: that we haven\u2019t been interested in him, only in his blessings.<br>Are we prepared to let God separate us emotionally from his blessings, to scatter us into darkness and desolation? If we let him, spiritual grit will be our reward. Then no trouble great or small will be able to stop us from taking heart: \u201cIn this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world\u201d (v. 33).<br>By Oswald Chambers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A time is coming and in fact has come when you will be scattered. \u2014 John 16:32 Jesus isn\u2019t rebuking the disciples in this passage: he knows that their faith is real. But he also knows that their faith is disturbed. The disciples are scattered to their own interests, interests that have nothing to do [&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-479876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-daily-devotion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479876","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=479876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}