{"id":21746,"date":"2022-05-18T22:27:42","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T05:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/gospel-express\/2022-faithjourney-copy\/"},"modified":"2022-05-18T22:36:05","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T05:36:05","slug":"2022-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/gospel-express\/2022-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"The God of Tomorrow"},"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;\">Max Lucado<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21747 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/tomorrow-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When Jesus found the just-healed man in the temple, he told him, \u201cSee, you have been made well. Sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon you\u201d (John 5:14).<\/p>\n<p>Stagnant, do-nothingness is deemed as a serious offense.\u00a0No more Bethesda for you. No more waking up and going to sleep in the same mess.<\/p>\n<p>God is the God of forward motion, the God of tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>The man in John\u2019s story had waited thirty-eight years, but something about the presence of Christ, the question of Christ, the command of Christ convinced him not to wait another day.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21748 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/tomorrow-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/tomorrow-2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/tomorrow-2-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s join him.<\/p>\n<p>Ask the Lord this question:<\/p>\n<p><em>What can I do today that will take me in the direction of a better tomorrow?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Keep asking until you hear an answer. And once you hear it, do it. Stand up, take up, and walk.\u00a0Remember, friends, you are never alone.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21749 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/tomorrow-3-e1652938537926.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h1>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":21748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"portfolio_entries":[35],"class_list":["post-21746","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\/21746","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=21746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/21746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21750,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/21746\/revisions\/21750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21746"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_entries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_entries?post=21746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}