{"id":38099,"date":"2025-11-13T22:00:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T05:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=38099"},"modified":"2025-11-04T18:02:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T01:02:48","slug":"251114-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/251114-need\/","title":{"rendered":"He Knows What We Need"},"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\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><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-38101 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/251114_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/251114_1.png 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/251114_1-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One morning, my wife Denalyn was with me in the car. \u201cI\u2019m about to remind you why you married me,\u201d I told her as we drew near to the intersection. \u201cSee that long line of cars?\u00a0 See that humdrum of humanity? Not for me. Hang on!\u201d I swerved from the six-lane onto the one-lane and shared with my sweetheart my secret expressway to freedom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do you think?\u201d I asked, awaiting her worship. \u201cI think you broke the law.\u201d \u201cWhat?\u201d \u201cYou just went the wrong way on a one-way street!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I did. I missed the \u201cDo Not Enter\u201d sign. Before coming to Christ, we all had our share of shortcuts. What we consider shortcuts God sees as disasters. He doesn\u2019t give laws for our pleasure. He gives them for our protection. He knows what we need.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-37832 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1-line_1-300x34.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"34\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1-line_1-300x34.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1-line_1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>God Made Our Brains. He Can Retrain Our Brains.<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37576 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/time.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" \/>Stuck in your head? Hounded by regrets? Weighed down by worry? Change is possible! The thoughts that have characterized your past need not characterize the rest of your life.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0<em><strong>Tame Your Thoughts<\/strong><\/em>, Max explores three key thought-management tools and then applies them to the most common thought problems: worry, guilt, anxiety, and other types of mental quicksand that threaten to trap us. God loves us too much to let us lead a life marked by poor thinking. He has not left us alone in this battle of the mind.<\/p>\n<p>shared with permission<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One morning, my wife Denalyn was with me in the car. \u201cI\u2019m about to remind you why you married me,\u201d I told her as we drew near to the intersection. \u201cSee that long line of cars?  See that humdrum of humanity? Not for me. Hang on!\u201d I swerved from the six-lane onto the one-lane and shared with my sweetheart my secret expressway to freedom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do you think?\u201d I asked, awaiting her worship. \u201cI think you broke the law.\u201d \u201cWhat?\u201d \u201cYou just went the wrong way on a one-way street!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I did. I missed the \u201cDo Not Enter\u201d sign. Before coming to Christ, we all had our share of shortcuts. What we consider shortcuts God sees as disasters. He doesn\u2019t give laws for our pleasure. He gives them for our protection. He knows what we need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38099"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38102,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38099\/revisions\/38102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}