{"id":42036,"date":"2026-10-19T19:23:39","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T02:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=42036"},"modified":"2026-10-19T19:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T02:40:12","slug":"26-1019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-1019\/","title":{"rendered":"The God of Forward Motion"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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When Jesus found the just healed man in the temple, he told him, \u201cSee, you have been made well. Sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon you\u201d (John 5:14 NKJV). Stagnant, do-nothingness is deemed as a serious offense. No more Bethesda for you. No more waking up and going to sleep in the same mess.<\/p>\n

God is the God of forward motion. The God of tomorrow. The man in John\u2019s story had waited 38 years but something about the presence of Christ, the question of Christ, the command of Christ convinced him not to wait another day. Let\u2019s join him. Ask the Lord this question, \u201cWhat can I do today that will take me in the direction of a better tomorrow?\u201d Keep asking until you hear an answer. And once you hear it, do it. Stand up, take up, and walk. Remember friends, you are never alone.<\/p>\n

\"\"Read more You Are Never Alone: Trust in the Miracle of God’s Presence & Power<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Jesus found the just healed man in the temple, he told him, \u201cSee, you have been made well. Sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon you\u201d (John 5:14 NKJV). Stagnant, do-nothingness is deemed as a serious offense. No more Bethesda for you. No more waking up and going to sleep in the same mess.<\/p>\n

God is the God of forward motion. The God of tomorrow. The man in John\u2019s story had waited 38 years but something about the presence of Christ, the question of Christ, the command of Christ convinced him not to wait another day. Let\u2019s join him. Ask the Lord this question, \u201cWhat can I do today that will take me in the direction of a better tomorrow?\u201d Keep asking until you hear an answer. And once you hear it, do it. Stand up, take up, and walk. Remember friends, you are never alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42037,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42036","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\/42036","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=42036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42038,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42036\/revisions\/42038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}