{"id":1883,"date":"2015-02-03T12:50:48","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T17:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/?p=1883"},"modified":"2015-02-03T12:50:48","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T17:50:48","slug":"misplaced-confidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/2015\/02\/03\/misplaced-confidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Misplaced Confidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>&#8220;Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh. For <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the LORD shall be thy confidence<\/span>, and shall keep thy foot from being taken. Proverbs 3:25,26<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While sitting and pondering on the above verses earlier today, I spotted this little bird outside our living room window, sweetly perched on our volleyball post.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/birdonvolleyballpost-002-Small.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1884 aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/birdonvolleyballpost-002-Small.jpg?resize=450%2C375\" width=\"450\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As I watched this little creature, I was reminded that, just as God sees it sitting on top of its little perch, God is also very aware of each of us &#8211;\u00a0and every circumstance that He allows in our lives. Sometimes, these circumstances may cause &#8220;sudden fear&#8221; &#8211; panic &#8211; as we\u00a0are caught off guard with troubling news.\u00a0\u00a0Initial alarm to devastating news is natural, but continued fear is a sign of misplaced confidence. Proverbs 118:8 reminds us &#8211; <em><strong>&#8220;It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/em>No matter what may come our way, confidence in the Lord is the only way to weather our trials while experiencing\u00a0peace in our hearts<em>. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>&#8220;Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.&#8221; Isaiah 26:3<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>~ Rachel ~<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh. For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken. Proverbs 3:25,26 While sitting and pondering on the above verses earlier today, I spotted this little bird outside our living room window, sweetly perched on our volleyball post. As I watched this little creature, I was reminded that, just as God sees it sitting on top of its little perch, God is also very aware of each of us &#8211;\u00a0and every circumstance that He allows in our lives. Sometimes, these circumstances may cause &#8220;sudden fear&#8221; &#8211; panic &#8211; as we\u00a0are caught off guard with troubling news.\u00a0\u00a0Initial alarm to devastating news is natural, but continued fear is a sign of misplaced confidence. Proverbs 118:8 reminds us &#8211; &#8220;It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.&#8221;\u00a0 No matter what may come our way, confidence in the Lord is the only way to weather our trials while experiencing\u00a0peace in our hearts. &#8220;Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.&#8221; Isaiah 26:3 ~ Rachel ~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[47,3,53,4,48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comfort","category-faith","category-fear","category-gods-promises","category-peace","category-trials"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4o6C2-un","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1883"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1886,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883\/revisions\/1886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}