{"id":38426,"date":"2025-12-05T22:00:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T05:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=38426"},"modified":"2025-12-03T00:21:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T07:21:38","slug":"251206-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/251206-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"It Matters to God"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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What matters to you matters to God. You probably think that\u2019s true when it comes to the big stuff like death, disease, sin, and disaster. But what about the smaller things? What about grouchy bosses or flat tires?\u00a0 What about broken dishes, late flights, toothaches, or a crashed hard drive? Do these matter to God?<\/p>\n

Let me tell you who you are. In fact, let me\u00a0proclaim<\/em>\u00a0who you are. The Bible says you are an heir of God and a co-heir with Christ. You have a crown that will last forever. You were chosen before the creation of the world. But more than anything else is the simple fact you are God\u2019s child.<\/p>\n

1 John 3:1 (NCV) says, \u201cWe are called children of God. And we really are his children<\/strong>.\u201d I love that: we really are his children. So, if something is important to you it\u2019s important to God!<\/p>\n

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\"\"Read more\u00a0When God Whispers Your Name<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What matters to you matters to God. You probably think that\u2019s true when it comes to the big stuff like death, disease, sin, and disaster. But what about the smaller things? What about grouchy bosses or flat tires?\u00a0 What about broken dishes, late flights, toothaches, or a crashed hard drive? Do these matter to God?<\/p>\n

Let me tell you who you are. In fact, let me\u00a0proclaim\u00a0who you are. The Bible says you are an heir of God and a co-heir with Christ. You have a crown that will last forever. You were chosen before the creation of the world. But more than anything else is the simple fact you are God\u2019s child.<\/p>\n

1 John 3:1 (NCV) says, \u201cWe are called children of God. And we really are his children.\u201d I love that: we really are his children. So, if something is important to you it\u2019s important to God!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38427,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38426","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\/38426","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=38426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38428,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38426\/revisions\/38428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}