{"id":26148,"date":"2023-04-19T22:06:52","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T05:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/gospel-express\/2023-promise-2-copy\/"},"modified":"2023-04-19T22:28:46","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T05:28:46","slug":"2023-greatrace","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/gospel-express\/2023-greatrace\/","title":{"rendered":"God has a great race for you to run"},"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 Max Lucado<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-26149 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/travel-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/travel-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/travel-1-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Under his care you will go where you\u2019ve never been and serve in ways you\u2019ve never dreamed. But you have to drop some stuff. How can you share grace if you are full of guilt? How can you offer comfort if you are disheartened? How can you lift someone else\u2019s load if your arms are full with your own?<\/p>\n<p><strong>For the sake of those you love, travel light.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For the sake of the God you serve, travel light.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For the sake of your own joy, travel light.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-26150 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/travel-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/travel-2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/travel-2-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are certain weights in life you simply cannot carry. Your Lord is asking you to set them down and trust him. He is the father at the baggage claim. When a dad sees his five year-old son trying to drag the family trunk off the carousel, what does he say? The father will say to his son what God is saying to you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cSet it down, child. I\u2019ll carry that one.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What do you say we take God up on his offer? We just might find ourselves traveling a little lighter.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t overstate God\u2019s promise:<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cUnload all your worries onto him, since he is looking after you\u201d (1 Peter 5:7 JB).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-26151 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/travel-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/travel-3.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/travel-3-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":26149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"portfolio_entries":[29],"class_list":["post-26148","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_entries-29"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/26148","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=26148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/26148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26152,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/26148\/revisions\/26152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26148"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_entries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_entries?post=26148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}