{"id":16319,"date":"2026-10-08T08:46:41","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T13:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=16319"},"modified":"2026-10-15T08:48:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T13:48:20","slug":"not-seeking-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/16319\/not-seeking-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Seeking Attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Good morning Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I\u2019m up reading in the TFAS book (God Had a Son before Mary Did),* and something you wrote under \u201cConcealing Angels\u201d is so good to me!\u00a0 You said, \u201cIf our heavenly Father were a publicity hound, He would let us know about all from which His protecting angels save us. But our Father, as Jesus demonstrated, is meek and lowly.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This follows your explanation about the differences between the nature of God and the nature of humans, and it is so good to me!\u00a0 The flesh wants to be seen and praised for doing a good job\u2014or even just for not doing a bad one.\u00a0 Whether it\u2019s a promotion at work, a grade in school, or simply cooking a tasty meal, the flesh wants acknowledgment.\u00a0 But God\u2019s nature is the complete opposite.\u00a0 It\u2019s so opposite that He even hid His greatest creation, the Son.\u00a0 It\u2019s so opposite that we must feel our way in the darkness and wait for Him to reveal truth to our hearts.\u00a0 Whew.\u00a0 And when we take on His nature, we become like our Father\u2014meek and lowly\u2014walking around with the greatest gift, the answer for any and every problem quietly rolling through us, waiting for a sincere and hungry heart to share it with.\u00a0 Telling that hungry heart it is none of us and all of God.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">So, if any child of God goes through a season of being ignored, just praise God because He is making you just like Him.\u00a0 I love that so much!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I\u2019m taking this into the office today.\u00a0 I have an interview for another position at work, and this is the perfect preparation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">See you soon, dear pastor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Love,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Beth<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">*<\/span> <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/goingtojesus.com\/gtj_books.html?tname=fands\">https:\/\/goingtojesus.com\/gtj_books.html?tname=fands<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning Pastor John, I\u2019m up reading in the TFAS book (God Had a Son before Mary Did),* and something you wrote under \u201cConcealing Angels\u201d is so good to me!\u00a0 You said, \u201cIf our heavenly Father were a publicity hound, He would let us know about all from which His protecting angels save us. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16319"}],"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=16319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16320,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16319\/revisions\/16320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}