{"id":94,"date":"2007-08-05T07:48:51","date_gmt":"2007-08-05T12:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.livingbythewordsofgod.com\/?p=94"},"modified":"2007-08-05T07:48:51","modified_gmt":"2007-08-05T12:48:51","slug":"disappointment-and-the-way-we-choose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/?p=94","title":{"rendered":"Disappointment and the way we choose."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>(John 14:6 ESV)  Jesus said to him, &#8220;I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We face disappointment no matter the Way or road we choose in life.<\/p>\n<p><u>Here is the difference<\/u> between Christianity and all other ways, the difference, by the way. that many &#8220;blessing seekers&#8221; and &#8220;happiness seekers&#8221; in the Christian faith never understand.  All other roads <strong><u>end<\/u> <\/strong>in disappointment.  As Christians, <u>we face disappointment<\/u> in following Jesus Christ, sometimes bitter disappointment, but <strong>our way ends in glory, absolute joy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>(1 Peter 4:12-13 ESV)  Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you.  (13)  But rejoice insofar as you share Christ&#8217;s sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s how you end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(John 14:6 ESV) Jesus said to him, &#8220;I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. We face disappointment no matter the Way or road we choose in life. Here &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/?p=94\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-spirituality-religion-truth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3dxA8-1w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}