{"id":364,"date":"2015-12-16T21:44:25","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T21:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jackofalltribes.com\/?p=364"},"modified":"2015-12-16T21:44:25","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T21:44:25","slug":"does-god-really-do-important-work-through-people-who-seem-unimportant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/does-god-really-do-important-work-through-people-who-seem-unimportant\/","title":{"rendered":"Does God really do important work through people who seem unimportant?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To read this post click here:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Good-News-2.3-Important.pdf\">Good News 2.3 Important<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/About-this-series-of-reflections1.pdf\">About this series of reflections<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/annunciation_stained_glass_window_hdr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-368\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/annunciation_stained_glass_window_hdr-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Annunciation Stained Glass Window HDR\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>. . . Mary was upset and confused by this messenger.\u00a0 She wondered what was really going on.\u00a0 But the messenger said, &#8220;Mary, you can stop fearing.\u00a0 With God you find grace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>God is not the kind of authority who tells you it is good news when he plans to ruin you.\u00a0 He is a leader you can trust to be making bad situations better than you can imagine, because he really does love people who don&#8217;t deserve it.\u00a0 That is what his grace means.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To read this post click here:\u00a0 Good News 2.3 Important About this series of reflections . . . Mary was upset and confused by this messenger.\u00a0 She wondered what was really going on.\u00a0 But the messenger said, &#8220;Mary, you can stop fearing.\u00a0 With God you find grace.&#8221; God is not the kind of authority who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[67,55,110,57,108,111,109],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-reflections","tag-good-news","tag-grace","tag-importance","tag-jesus","tag-messiah","tag-providence","tag-value","books-of-the-bible-luke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions\/369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}