{"id":40865,"date":"2026-07-09T22:00:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T05:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=40865"},"modified":"2026-07-06T22:52:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T05:52:14","slug":"26-0710","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-0710\/","title":{"rendered":"The Overseer of Your World"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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It is not God\u2019s will that you face every day with dread and trepidation.<\/p>\n

I have a childhood memory that I cherish. My father loved corn bread and buttermilk. About ten o\u2019clock each night he would meander into the kitchen and crumble a piece of corn bread into a glass of buttermilk, stand at the counter and drink it. Then he\u2019d make the rounds to the front and back doors, checking the locks. Once everything was secure, he would step into the bedroom I shared with my brother and say something like, \u201cEverything is secure, boys. You can go to sleep now.\u201d<\/p>\n

I have no inclination to believe that God loves corn bread and buttermilk, but I do believe he loves his children. He keeps everything secure. He oversees your world. And by his power you will \u201cbe anxious for nothing\u201d and discover the \u201cpeace\u2026that passes all understanding\u201d (Philippians 4:4-8 RSV).<\/p>\n

\"\"Read more\u00a0Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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It is not God\u2019s will that you face every day with dread and trepidation.<\/p>\n

I have a childhood memory that I cherish. My father loved corn bread and buttermilk. About ten o\u2019clock each night he would meander into the kitchen and crumble a piece of corn bread into a glass of buttermilk, stand at the counter and drink it. Then he\u2019d make the rounds to the front and back doors, checking the locks. Once everything was secure, he would step into the bedroom I shared with my brother and say something like, \u201cEverything is secure, boys. You can go to sleep now.\u201d<\/p>\n

I have no inclination to believe that God loves corn bread and buttermilk, but I do believe he loves his children. He keeps everything secure. He oversees your world. And by his power you will \u201cbe anxious for nothing\u201d and discover the \u201cpeace\u2026that passes all understanding\u201d (Philippians 4:4-8 RSV).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40867,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40865","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\/40865","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=40865"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40868,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40865\/revisions\/40868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}