{"id":17297,"date":"2011-03-31T14:11:16","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T18:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=17297"},"modified":"2011-03-31T14:11:16","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T18:11:16","slug":"a-reflection-of-christ-swindoll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/03\/31\/a-reflection-of-christ-swindoll\/","title":{"rendered":"A Reflection of Christ [Swindoll]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/insightforliving.typepad.com\/dailydevo\/2011\/03\/a-reflection-of-christ.html\" target=\"_blank\">A Reflection of Christ<\/a> &#8211;<\/strong>&#8211; from Insight for Today by Charles R. Swindoll<br \/>\n<em>Excerpt regarding the commentary on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Genesis%2043:33-34;&amp;version=49;\" target=\"_blank\">Genesis 43:33-34<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Joseph&#8217;s life offers us a magnificent portrayal of the grace of God  as He came to our rescue in the Person of His Son, Jesus. So many come  to Him, like Joseph&#8217;s guilty brothers, feeling the distance and fearing  the worst from God, only to have Him demonstrate incredible generosity  and mercy. Instead of being blamed, we are forgiven. Instead of feeling  guilty, we are freed. And instead of experiencing punishment, which we  certainly deserve, we are seated at His table and served more than we  can ever take in.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">For some, it&#8217;s too unreal. So we desperately plead our case, only to  have Him speak kindly to us\u2014promising us peace in our own language. We  then try to fend off His anger by bargaining with Him, thinking our hard  work and sincere efforts will pay Him back for all those evil past  deeds we&#8217;re guilty of. But to our astonishment, He never even considered  our attempts important enough to mention. What we had in mind was  earning just enough to silence our guilt, but what He had in mind was  overwhelming us with such an abundance we&#8217;d realize we can never, ever  repay.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">What a beautiful picture of Christ at the cross, bearing the sins we  committed, forgiving us in the process. Isn&#8217;t such grace amazing? The  One who was rejected is the same One who goes the limit to get us  reunited with Him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Reflection of Christ &#8211;&#8211; from Insight for Today by Charles R. Swindoll Excerpt regarding the commentary on Genesis 43:33-34 Joseph&#8217;s life offers us a magnificent portrayal of the grace of God as He came to our rescue in the Person of His Son, Jesus. So many come to Him, like Joseph&#8217;s guilty brothers, feeling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[110,425,248,377],"tags":[772,696,750],"class_list":["post-17297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-blogging","category-faith","category-relationships","category-religion","tag-faith-wisdom","tag-relationships","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17298,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17297\/revisions\/17298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}