{"id":71708,"date":"2024-10-16T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/?p=71708"},"modified":"2024-10-11T14:02:58","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T18:02:58","slug":"the-nature-of-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/the-nature-of-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nature of Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Scripture Reading: Hebrews 11:1-2, John 20:1-31, Acts 1:6-11<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After you finish reading today\u2019s scriptures, come back and use the blurb and question here to dig deeper into the themes of faith, hope, obedience, and suffering. Join your fellow Bible readers in the comments to reflect and chat about what you\u2019re learning!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>The proof of our hope is the resurrected Christ, the incarnate God who walked on earth and turned His own sorrow at the cross into the joy of reunification with His people. When we turn the weight of our suffering over to Him, He gives us the hope of His resurrection and His ascension\u2014a reminder for weary hearts who need to rely on what His love and power have done and a promise that He will come again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you have a favorite verse, song, or quote that reminds you of your hope in Christ and encourages you when challenges come up? If so, share it in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture Reading: Hebrews 11:1-2, John 20:1-31, Acts 1:6-11 After you finish reading today\u2019s scriptures, come back and use the blurb and question here to dig deeper into the themes of faith, hope, obedience, and suffering. Join your fellow Bible readers in the comments to reflect and chat about what you\u2019re learning! The proof of our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[290],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-livebyfaith"],"acf":{"hero_background_image":false,"related_plans":[71654],"weekly_truth":false,"grace_day":false,"share_text":"#SheReadsTruth","devotional_text":"<b>THE NATURE OF FAITH<\/b><br><br \/>\r\n<p class=\"p1\u201d>After you finish reading today\u2019s scriptures, come back and use the blurb and question here to dig deeper into the themes of faith, hope, obedience, and suffering. Join your fellow Bible readers in the comments to reflect and chat about what you\u2019re learning!<\/p><br \/>\r\n<p class=\"p1\u201d>The proof of our hope is the resurrected Christ, the incarnate God who walked on earth and turned His own sorrow at the cross into the joy of reunification with His people. When we turn the weight of our suffering over to Him, He gives us the hope of His resurrection and His ascension\u2014a reminder for weary hearts who need to rely on what His love and power have done and a promise that He will come again.<\/p><br \/>\r\n<p class=\"p1\u201d>Do you have a favorite verse, song, or quote that reminds you of your hope in Christ and encourages you when challenges come up? If so, share it in the comments!<\/p>","share_image_height":"640","day_number":"3","scripture":"Hebrews 11:1-2, John 20:1-31, Acts 1:6-11","available":true,"ad_banner_name":"","ad_banner_image":false,"ad_banner_url":"","songs":"","key_verse":"","key_verse_reference":"","background_image":false,"background_color":"#FBF7F3","scripture_references":false,"share_image":false,"author_name":"","author_bio":"","guest_social_media":false,"show_ad":true,"ad_override":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}