{"id":83640,"date":"2022-10-30T01:00:08","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T05:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=83640"},"modified":"2022-10-29T09:42:12","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T13:42:12","slug":"reflections-on-hebrews-412","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2022\/10\/30\/reflections-on-hebrews-412\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on Hebrews 4:12"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"dropdown-4ae6c\" class=\"bcv d-container go2538389840\" role=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-haspopup=\"listbox\" aria-labelledby=\"dropdown-4ae6c\">\n<div class=\"dropdown-display\">\n<div class=\"dropdown-display-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Heb.4.12&amp;version=NIV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>Hebrews 4:12<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from biblegateway.com<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"passage-text\">\n<div class=\"passage-content passage-class-0\">\n<div class=\"version-NIV result-text-style-normal text-html\">\n<div class=\"std-text\">\n<p><span id=\"en-NIV-30027\" class=\"text Heb-4-12\"><sup class=\"versenum\">12\u00a0<\/sup>For the word of God\u00a0is alive\u00a0and active.\u00a0Sharper than any double-edged sword,\u00a0it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">I&#8217;ve found this to be true, although sometimes I wish it weren&#8217;t the case. There are times when I read scripture that I wish it were a bit &#8220;lighter.&#8221; The Word can cut deeply. Though I suppose that&#8217;s also helped me many times in convicting me or helping me see blindspots and\/or guiding my thinking\/behaviors. I have it that if we can&#8217;t communicate with God, we can&#8217;t have a relationship with Him.\u00a0 Trust = faith. We can&#8217;t build trust with someone who we can&#8217;t communicate with. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hebrews 4:12 &#8212; from biblegateway.com 12\u00a0For the word of God\u00a0is alive\u00a0and active.\u00a0Sharper than any double-edged sword,\u00a0it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. From DSC: I&#8217;ve found this to be true, although sometimes I wish it weren&#8217;t the case. There are times when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[433,72,95,500,248],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communications","category-daniel-s-christian","category-global-globalization","category-hearts-matters-of-the-heart","category-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83640"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83642,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83640\/revisions\/83642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}