{"id":39856,"date":"2026-04-03T08:51:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T15:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=39856"},"modified":"2026-04-03T08:59:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T15:59:03","slug":"26-0403","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-0403\/","title":{"rendered":"God Has an Answer for Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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You stare into the darkness. The ceiling fan whirls above you. Your husband slumbers next to you. In minutes the alarm will sound, and the demands of the day will shoot you like a clown out of a cannon into the three-ring circus of meetings, bosses, and baseball practices. For the millionth time you\u2019ll make breakfast, schedules, and payroll\u2026but for the life of you, you can\u2019t make sense of this thing called life.\u00a0It\u2019s beginnings and endings. Cradles and cancers and cemeteries and questions. The meaning of life, the poor choices of life.<\/p>\n

Did you know God answers the mess of life with one word? Grace. Do we really understand it? God in the Bible says, \u201cI will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you\u201d (Ezekiel 36:26 NKJV). That\u2019s grace! Grace calls us to change and then gives us the power to pull it off.<\/p>\n

\"\"Read more\u00a0He Chose the Nails: What God Did to Win Your Heart<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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You stare into the darkness. The ceiling fan whirls above you. Your husband slumbers next to you. In minutes the alarm will sound, and the demands of the day will shoot you like a clown out of a cannon into the three-ring circus of meetings, bosses, and baseball practices. For the millionth time you\u2019ll make breakfast, schedules, and payroll\u2026but for the life of you, you can\u2019t make sense of this thing called life. It\u2019s beginnings and endings. Cradles and cancers and cemeteries and questions. The meaning of life, the poor choices of life.<\/p>\n

Did you know God answers the mess of life with one word? Grace. Do we really understand it? God in the Bible says, \u201cI will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you\u201d (Ezekiel 36:26 NKJV). That\u2019s grace! Grace calls us to change and then gives us the power to pull it off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39857,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39856","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\/39856","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=39856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39858,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39856\/revisions\/39858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}