{"id":11812,"date":"2020-10-01T15:35:56","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T22:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/portfolio-item\/2020-fosterdad-copy\/"},"modified":"2020-10-01T15:55:36","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T22:55:36","slug":"2020-reflect","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/gospel-express\/2020-reflect\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Reflect Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: right;\">By Amy Boucher Pye<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11814 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/reflection.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/reflection.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/reflection-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/reflection-450x225.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Colossians 1:27\u00a0 \u00a0God has chosen to make known . . . the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Th\u00e9r\u00e8se of Lisieux was a joyful and carefree child\u2014until her mother died when she was just four years old. She became timid and easily agitated. But many years later on Christmas Eve, all of that changed.<\/p>\n<p>After celebrating the birth of Jesus with her church community, she experienced God releasing her from her fear and giving her joy. She attributed the change to the power of God leaving heaven and becoming a man, Jesus, and through His dwelling in her.<\/p>\n<p>What does it mean for Christ to dwell within us? It\u2019s a mystery, said Paul to the Colossian church.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s one that God \u201ckept hidden for ages and generations\u201d (Colossians 1:26), but which He disclosed to God\u2019s people. To them God revealed \u201cthe glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory\u201d (v. 27). Because Christ now dwelled in the Colossians, they experienced the joy of new life. No longer were they enslaved to the old self of sin.<\/p>\n<p>If we\u2019ve asked Jesus to be our Savior, we too live out this mystery of His dwelling in us. Through His Spirit, He can release us from fear, as He did Th\u00e9r\u00e8se, and grow within us the fruit of His Spirit, such as joy, peace, and self-control (Galatians 5:22\u201323).<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s give thanks for the wonderful mystery of Christ within us.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11815 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/reflection-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"305\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/reflection-2.jpg 305w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/reflection-2-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 305px) 100vw, 305px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ourdailybread.ca\/christ-in-you\/?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=facebook\">Our Daily Bread<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":11814,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"portfolio_entries":[35],"class_list":["post-11812","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_entries-english-writer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/11812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/11812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11813,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/11812\/revisions\/11813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11812"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_entries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_entries?post=11812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}