{"id":38255,"date":"2025-11-25T22:00:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T05:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=38255"},"modified":"2025-11-19T00:20:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T07:20:06","slug":"251126-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/251126-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"We Take on God\u2019s 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\/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-38257 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/251126_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/251126_1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/251126_1-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Healthy marriages have a sense of tenderness and honesty and ongoing communication. The same is true in our relationship with God. Sometimes we go to him with our joys, sometimes our hurts, but we always go. And as we go, the more we go, the more we become like him. Paul says we\u2019re being changed from \u201cglory to glory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>People who live long lives together eventually begin to sound alike, to talk alike, even think alike. As we walk with God, we take on his thoughts, his principles, his attitudes. We take on his heart.<\/p>\n<p>And just as in marriage, communion with God is no burden. Indeed, it\u2019s a delight. The Psalmist says, \u201cHow lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord Almighty! My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God\u201d (Psalm 84:1-2 NIV).\u00a0Nothing\u2014<em>nothing<\/em>\u2014compares with it!<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"CToWUd\" src=\"https:\/\/ci3.googleusercontent.com\/meips\/ADKq_NYaAHCKALpHywaTtzrm8NxFrxMSf4vLZycr9MOW3N7OwMNLXb9ITHXPIvJaDKJKe_9zlqnFArPXwyEqmwjHAWBQM3iFmGqGMmOc3Krq_KYAgEVPXmZD1tmWW853tyVE=s0-d-e1-ft#https:\/\/maxlucado.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/LucadoInspirationalReader_L1.jpg\" alt=\"The Lucado Inspirational Reader\" width=\"100\" height=\"132.87037037\" border=\"0\" data-bit=\"iit\" \/>Read more\u00a0<a title=\"The Lucado Inspirational Reader\" href=\"https:\/\/maxlucado.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=bed511e434184985961d50fcb&amp;id=2b48502b75&amp;e=0716428f80\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/maxlucado.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Dbed511e434184985961d50fcb%26id%3D2b48502b75%26e%3D0716428f80&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1762998269695000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1217jxyrNhljQ5visk7aC7\"><em>The Lucado Inspirational Reader<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Healthy marriages have a sense of tenderness and honesty and ongoing communication. The same is true in our relationship with God. Sometimes we go to him with our joys, sometimes our hurts, but we always go. And as we go, the more we go, the more we become like him. Paul says we\u2019re being changed from \u201cglory to glory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>People who live long lives together eventually begin to sound alike, to talk alike, even think alike. As we walk with God, we take on his thoughts, his principles, his attitudes. We take on his heart.<\/p>\n<p>And just as in marriage, communion with God is no burden. Indeed, it\u2019s a delight. The Psalmist says, \u201cHow lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord Almighty! My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God\u201d (Psalm 84:1-2 NIV). Nothing\u2014nothing\u2014compares with it! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38257,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38255","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\/38255","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=38255"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38258,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38255\/revisions\/38258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}