{"id":39060,"date":"2026-01-27T22:00:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T05:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=39060"},"modified":"2026-01-27T17:04:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T00:04:53","slug":"260128-certain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/260128-certain\/","title":{"rendered":"We Can Be Certain"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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There are so many things we don\u2019t know. We don\u2019t know if the economy will dip or if our team will win. We don\u2019t know what our spouse is thinking or how our kids will turn out. And Scripture reminds us we don\u2019t even know \u201cwhat we ought to pray for<\/strong>\u201d (Romans 8:26).<\/p>\n

But according to Paul\u2019s words in Romans 8:28, we can be absolutely certain about four things: We know God works.<\/strong> He is ceaseless and tireless. God works for our ultimate good. God works for the good of those who love him. And God works in all things. Not a few things, in\u00a0all things<\/em>!<\/p>\n

Puppet in the hands of fortune or fate? Not you. You are in the hands of a living, loving God. Your life a crafted narrative written by a good God who\u2019s working for your supreme good.<\/p>\n

\"\"Read more\u00a0God’s Story, Your Story<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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There are so many things we don\u2019t know. We don\u2019t know if the economy will dip or if our team will win. We don\u2019t know what our spouse is thinking or how our kids will turn out. And Scripture reminds us we don\u2019t even know \u201cwhat we ought to pray for\u201d (Romans 8:26).<\/p>\n

But according to Paul\u2019s words in Romans 8:28, we can be absolutely certain about four things: We know God works. He is ceaseless and tireless. God works for our ultimate good. God works for the good of those who love him. And God works in all things. Not a few things, in all things!<\/p>\n

Puppet in the hands of fortune or fate? Not you. You are in the hands of a living, loving God. Your life a crafted narrative written by a good God who\u2019s working for your supreme good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39061,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39060","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\/39060","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=39060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39062,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39060\/revisions\/39062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}