{"id":7574,"date":"2020-02-06T20:00:40","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T03:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=7574"},"modified":"2020-02-06T02:11:25","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T09:11:25","slug":"heart-max","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/gospel-express\/heart-max\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lord Looks at the Heart"},"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=\"aligncenter wp-image-7575 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/max-1-e1580979956578.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Moses ran from justice, but God used him.<\/p>\n<p>Jonah ran from God, but God used him.<\/p>\n<p>Rahab ran a brothel, Samson ran to the wrong woman, Jacob ran in circles, Elijah ran into the mountains, Sarah ran out of hope, Lot ran with the wrong crowd, but God used them all.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7576 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/max-2-e1580980059684.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And David? God saw a teenage boy serving him in the backwoods of Bethlehem, at the intersection of boredom and anonymity, and through the voice of a brother, God called, \u201cDavid! Come in. Someone wants to see you.\u201d Human eyes saw a gangly teenager enter the house, smelling like sheep and looking like he needed a bath. Yet, \u201cthe Lord said, \u2018Arise, anoint him; for this is the one!\u2019 \u201d (I Sam. 16:12).<\/p>\n<p>God saw what no one else saw: a God-seeking heart. David, for all his foibles, sought God like a lark seeks sunrise. He took after God\u2019s heart, because he stayed after God\u2019s heart. In the end, that\u2019s all God wanted or needed . . . wants or needs. Others measure your waist size or wallet. Not God. He examines hearts. When he finds one set on him, he calls it and claims it.<\/p>\n<p>The story of young David assures us of this: your Father knows your heart, and because he does, he has a place reserved just for you.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7577 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/max-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"340\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/max-3.jpg 340w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/max-3-300x238.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":7577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"portfolio_entries":[35],"class_list":["post-7574","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\/7574","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=7574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/7574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7578,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/7574\/revisions\/7578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7574"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_entries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_entries?post=7574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}