{"id":33940,"date":"2023-12-23T01:00:10","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T00:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/faith-pays-off\/"},"modified":"2023-12-22T13:03:12","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T12:03:12","slug":"faith-pays-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/faith-pays-off\/","title":{"rendered":"faith pays off"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s not difficult to make a decision when all the facts are known. Hence, it is not difficult for us to believe something if we can verify it. But unfortunately, that\u2019s not always possible. The truth of some statements, signs or indications remains hidden from us. In such cases, we must take a leap of faith and believe one thing or the other.<\/p>\n\n<p>This is also experienced by the truth seekers who see the sign of Jesus&#8217; birth in the sky. They cannot immediately check whether they have understood those signs correctly. They take a leap of faith and decide to see the star as a sign of God. Also, during their long journey to Bethlehem, they can only hope that they have made the right decision.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>When they saw the star[in Bethlehem], they were overjoyed.<\/em><\/p>\n<cite><em>Matthew 2:10<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>In relation to God, we often have to take that leap of faith. Like the truth seekers, we cannot immediately verify whether we have correctly understood the signs of God and that it is indeed God who is showing Himself to us. But the greater will be the joy when one day our faith proves to be true.<\/p>\n\n<p>Do you also dare to take this leap?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-font-size is-style-fill has-small-font-size\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/godtime.online\/en\/the-wise-men\/\" style=\"border-radius:0px\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">More about the wise men<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not difficult to make a decision when all the facts are known. Hence, it is not difficult for us to believe something if we can verify it. But unfortunately, that\u2019s not always possible. The truth of some statements, signs or indications remains hidden from us. In such cases, we must take a leap of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33360,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[448],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-truth-seeker2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}