{"id":23137,"date":"2018-05-17T03:30:20","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T10:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/?p=23137"},"modified":"2018-05-15T11:50:31","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T18:50:31","slug":"may-17-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/2018\/05\/17\/may-17-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"May 17, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/div><\/div><\/div>

\u201cAnd God said to Moses, \u2018I AM WHO I AM.\u2019\u201d <\/em>Exodus 3:14<\/p>\n

Have You Lost Your Awe?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Within the last year or so there have been two children that have drowned. Miraculously, God intervened and saved their little lives and for that we give Him all the glory and praise! But most recently there was a third little child that drowned. The prayer teams prayed just like for the other two but this little one went home to be with the Lord. When things like this happen we tend to question, \u201cWhy, God? Why didn\u2019t You save this one? We prayed just like we did for the others. Why?\u201d<\/p>\n

What do you do? What will you say to the parents that lost their little one? Will you get mad at God? Are you disillusioned enough with Jesus that you will now plot against Him?<\/p>\n

Judas was like that. Judas was called by the Messiah just like the others. He walked with Jesus for three and half years just like the other disciples. He saw the miraculous. He ate with Jesus and spoke with Him; but Judas expected something from Jesus that wasn\u2019t in the Father\u2019s plan and for that Judas betrayed the Son of God into the hands of sinful men. We must be careful that we don\u2019t do the same thing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? Certainly not! For He says to Moses, \u2018I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion\u2019\u2019\u2019\u00a0<\/em>(Romans 9:14-15).<\/p>\n

God is God and we are not. His ways are not our ways. His plans are not subject to ours. We must humbly accept the course that we find ourselves on after tragedy strikes and seek God\u2019s wisdom, grace and mercy to carry on.<\/p>\n

Mercy Me has put out a song that is fitting for these kinds of questions in life. The song is called Even If<\/em>. Here are the lyrics of the chorus and bridge:<\/p>\n

I know You\u2019re able and I know You can<\/em>\r\nSave through the fire with Your mighty hand<\/em>\r\nBut even if You don\u2019t<\/em>\r\nMy hope is You alone<\/em>\r\n\r\nI know the sorrow, and I know the hurt<\/em>\r\nWould all go away if You\u2019d just say the word<\/em>\r\nBut even if You don\u2019t<\/em>\r\nMy hope is You alone<\/em>\r\n\r\nYou\u2019ve been faithful, You\u2019ve been good<\/em>\r\nAll of my days<\/em>\r\nJesus, I will cling to You<\/em>\r\nCome what may<\/em>\r\n\u2018Cause I know You\u2019re able<\/em>\r\nI know You can*<\/em><\/pre>\n
\u201cFather, our hearts hurt terribly when we think You should answer us one way and You choose another. Please forgive us when we are tempted to be disillusioned with You. Help us to accept Your will and walk with You still. In the name of Jesus, Amen.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
*Bart Millard | Ben Glover | Crystal Lewis | David Arthur Garcia | Tim Timmons \/\/ \u00a9 2017 D Soul Music (Admin. by Brentwood-Benson Music Publishing, Inc.)\/\/ Universal Music – Brentwood Benson Publishing (Admin. by Brentwood-Benson Music Publishing, Inc.) \/\/ 9t One Songs (Admin. by Capitol CMG Publishing) \/\/ Ariose Music (Admin. by Capitol CMG Publishing) \/\/ So Essential Tunes (Admin. by Essential Music Publishing LLC) \/\/Tunes of MercyMe (Admin. by Essential Music Publishing LLC)\/\/\u00a0Crystallized (Admin. by Lori Kelly Rights & Licenses)<\/h6>\n<\/div>
<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-women"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p92wjD-61b","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23137"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23143,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23137\/revisions\/23143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}