{"id":1104,"date":"2012-04-03T08:31:35","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T13:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bottlerockettheology.com\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2012-04-03T08:31:35","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T13:31:35","slug":"the-irony-of-the-jelly-bean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/?p=1104","title":{"rendered":"The irony of the jelly bean &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"posterous_autopost\">The best things in the Bible, the true promises of God typically (always?) have a negative cover or skin. Beginning with acknowledgement of our sinfulness which is our first step toward the saving grace of Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Romans 3:23 (NASB)<br \/>\nFor all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"posterous_autopost\">And continuing with the transforming work of the word of God in the life of the believer. Reprove, rebuke, correct, teach &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 Timothy 3:16 (NASB)<br \/>\nAll Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness.<\/li>\n<li>2 Timothy 4:2 (NASB)<br \/>\nPreach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And this brings us to the truly good stuff &#8211; intimacy with God as we walk the planet. Much better than standing as a child with our hand out waiting for another jelly bean (blessing) from God. But too many of us who want a life blessed by God insist on our own path.<\/p>\n<p class=\"posterous_autopost\">Expressing an interest for the things of God we still resist his work in our lives. We don&#8217;t bow before his majesty: we merely draw near with our lips keeping our hearts at a distance and missing the best stuff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"posterous_autopost\">The abundance Christ spoke of is behind the door God chooses.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>John 10:10 (NASB95)<br \/>\nThe thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But we turn from the best stuff because it is negative in the sense of changing our lives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"posterous_autopost\">We hold out for the jelly bean and refuse God.<\/p>\n<p class=\"posterous_autopost\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best things in the Bible, the true promises of God typically (always?) have a negative cover or skin. Beginning with acknowledgement of our sinfulness which is our first step toward the saving grace of Jesus Christ. Romans 3:23 (NASB) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/?p=1104\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3dxA8-hO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}