{"id":42186,"date":"2026-09-27T00:54:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T22:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/?p=42186"},"modified":"2026-09-18T08:33:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T06:33:45","slug":"refused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/refused\/","title":{"rendered":"Refused!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The postman very kindly places my post in my hands. One envelope in particular catches my eye. I look at the sender\u2019s name, which is unfamiliar to me, and without thinking, I tell the postman to take it back. \u2018Refused,\u2019 he writes on it! It was only years later that I realised I\u2019d turned down a brilliant offer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fortunately, I didn\u2019t treat God\u2019s love letter in the same way. Sadly, many reject His offer, which determines life and death. Perhaps it\u2019s simply that the postman is unfriendly, the colour of the envelope isn\u2019t trendy enough, or simply because they\u2019re in a bad mood. Some refuse to accept it quite deliberately because God is the sender and they want nothing to do with Him \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"block-b051dcee-9ce9-4fd1-b4ee-5ceac7123f2f\">He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.<\/p>\n<cite><em>John 1,11<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Bible is God\u2019s love letter to you. God wants to offer you eternal, fulfilled life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Bible passage on this topic: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bibleserver.com\/NIV\/Luke19%3A1-27\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Luke 19,1-27<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The postman very kindly places my post in my hands. One envelope in particular catches my eye. I look at the sender\u2019s name, which is unfamiliar to me, and without thinking, I tell the postman to take it back. \u2018Refused,\u2019 he writes on it! It was only years later that I realised I\u2019d turned down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":30284,"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":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[511,414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-de_blog","category-en_blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42186","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\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42187,"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42186\/revisions\/42187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}