{"id":40791,"date":"2026-07-02T22:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T05:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=40791"},"modified":"2026-06-29T19:40:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T02:40:55","slug":"26-0703","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-0703\/","title":{"rendered":"Assembly Required"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">by Max Lucado<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-40793 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/260703_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/260703_1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/260703_1-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Do you want to see a father\u2019s face go ashen as he discovers three words on the box of a just-bought toy:\u00a0<em>some assembly required.<\/em>\u00a0What follows are hours of squeezing A into B, bolting D into F, sliding R over Z, and hoping no one notices if steps four, five, and six were skipped altogether. I\u2019m convinced the devil indwells the details of toy assembly. Somewhere in perdition is a warehouse of stolen toy parts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome assembly required.\u201d Not the most welcome sentence but an honest one. Life is a gift, albeit unassembled. The pieces don\u2019t fit. When they don\u2019t, take your problem to Jesus. He says, \u201cBring your problems to me.\u201d In prayer, state them simply. Present them faithfully, and trust him reverently.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40565\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1-unnamed-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0Read more\u00a0<a title=\"Before Amen: The Power of a Simple Prayer\" href=\"https:\/\/maxlucado.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=bed511e434184985961d50fcb&amp;id=c9668dc127&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%3Dc9668dc127%26e%3D0716428f80&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1780708342826000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3_JhZBG08V_1_JUTXCvTKQ\"><em>Before Amen: The Power of a Simple Prayer<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you want to see a father\u2019s face go ashen as he discovers three words on the box of a just-bought toy: some assembly required. What follows are hours of squeezing A into B, bolting D into F, sliding R over Z, and hoping no one notices if steps four, five, and six were skipped altogether. I\u2019m convinced the devil indwells the details of toy assembly. Somewhere in perdition is a warehouse of stolen toy parts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome assembly required.\u201d Not the most welcome sentence but an honest one. Life is a gift, albeit unassembled. The pieces don\u2019t fit. When they don\u2019t, take your problem to Jesus. He says, \u201cBring your problems to me.\u201d In prayer, state them simply. Present them faithfully, and trust him reverently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40793,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40791","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\/40791","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=40791"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40794,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40791\/revisions\/40794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}