{"id":14283,"date":"2023-10-24T23:46:40","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T23:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=14283"},"modified":"2023-10-24T23:46:40","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T23:46:40","slug":"thought-from-the-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/14283\/thought-from-the-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"Thought from the Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">I was listening to an old lesson on the book of John on YouTube tonight when a remembrance of a conversation with a relative was brought to my mind.\u00a0 She was telling me about a friend who left Catholicism and went to Buddhism because she couldn&#8217;t believe God would or should allow babies to be killed, nor the innocent to be harmed.\u00a0 I had reminded her of the flood and other times when God killed babies and children.\u00a0 I told her God&#8217;s thoughts are not our thoughts.\u00a0 He is not a big one of us.\u00a0 And I ended with God is always right.\u00a0 Then tonight, suddenly, this thought was put in my head when I was not even really thinking about this: &#8220;What makes us think God would reverence our children more than His own Son?\u00a0 Didn&#8217;t He allow His own Son to be killed by men who hated Him?&#8221;\u00a0 I have never thought about it that way.\u00a0 It puts a different light on it.\u00a0 I can see the truth in it, though.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Mark W.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">=========<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><em>Hi Mark.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><em>I agree with you, Mark.\u00a0 The God of the Bible who fully revealed Himself in Jesus Christ is perfect in all His ways &#8212; and His ways are far superior to ours.\u00a0 That is why we need the Spirit that Jesus suffered for us to have.\u00a0 It teaches us God&#8217;s ways and gives us His thoughts.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><em>God is love, just as the apostle John said, and He has always been love.\u00a0 That means that when He rained fire down on Sodom and Gomorrah, and when He destroyed the entire human race except for eight souls in the ark, He was still love.\u00a0 And as we have seen in the book of Job, God is accountable to no one for His actions.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><em>Our part is only to submit to His Son, and be faithful.\u00a0 And we willingly do that only when we understand that, regardless of how it may appear to the human mind, every act of God is entirely perfect in every way.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><em>Thank you for writing, brother.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John, I was listening to an old lesson on the book of John on YouTube tonight when a remembrance of a conversation with a relative was brought to my mind.\u00a0 She was telling me about a friend who left Catholicism and went to Buddhism because she couldn&#8217;t believe God would or should allow babies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}