{"id":4472,"date":"2020-12-10T06:00:13","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southsidealive.com\/?p=4472"},"modified":"2020-12-10T12:22:14","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T18:22:14","slug":"four-principles-for-faithful-christian-living-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/southsidealive.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/four-principles-for-faithful-christian-living-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Principles for Faithful Christian Living"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By David Willets<\/p>\n\n\n

1. God knows everything.<\/div>\n
2. We don\u2019t know everything!<\/div>\n
3. God always has our best interest in mind and is working things out for our good.<\/div>\n
4. It is my best option to trust God.<\/div>\n
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We have looked at the first two principles:<\/div>\n
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1. God knows everything.<\/div>\n
2. We don\u2019t know everything!<\/div>\n
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Now, we look at the third principle\u2026<\/div>\n
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3. God always has our best interest in mind and is working things out for our good.<\/div>\n
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Romans 8:28 <\/a>(NIV)<\/div>\n
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.<\/div>\n
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Some translations word this verse, \u201call things work together for good.\u201d This does not convey the sentiment about this verse. Things don\u2019t just work out for our good. God is the agent who is working out everything for our good.   <\/div>\n
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Paul is not saying that everything is good. On the contrary, there is much evil in this world. There are many things that can cause us harm. It is not that everything is good, but that God will work good out of everything including every evil thing that comes our way.<\/div>\n
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The real question is, do you believe God loves you?<\/div>\n
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Only when we develop a firm conviction regarding the working power of God in every situation can we apply the fourth principle.<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By David Willets 1. God knows everything. 2. We don\u2019t know everything! 3. God always has our best interest in mind and is working things out for our good. 4. It is my best option to trust God.   We have looked at the first two principles:   1. God knows everything. 2. We don\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[140],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/southsidealive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4472"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/southsidealive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/southsidealive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/southsidealive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/southsidealive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4472"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/southsidealive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4476,"href":"http:\/\/southsidealive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4472\/revisions\/4476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/southsidealive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/southsidealive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/southsidealive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}