{"id":8187,"date":"2022-05-13T02:06:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T02:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8187"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:11","slug":"to-will-what-god-wills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8187","title":{"rendered":"TO WILL WHAT GOD WILLS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgwy0Iw08rPpV1eIXIMKwGQ7yt_VgtsNTxMHB4s3i91AJrUj24JLCJS3epP_0QPd4bWPC7buPrKIAUYJN-hyu62i0CMNJIeVNYgHihttNPAV-5N_CmYCnXnFSj4LEOrr-N468lRIpzzB-HH34GbjpjZRTZHPW9u2vmovmG_LGy_SBpqtYdZ_OIy7XYD\/w640-h640\/Oden%20Quote.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This quote is from Oden&#8217;s book\u00a0<i>John Wesley&#8217;s Teachings, Volume 4:Ethics and Society, <\/i>page 29.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;To will what God wills&#8221; &#8211; what a profound phrase!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How many of us, if asked to measure our current Christian lives by that standard, could unequivocally confirm that a desire &#8220;to will what God wills&#8221; composes the very center of our lives?<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don&#8217;t know about you, but my prayers often feel like an attempt to bend God&#8217;s will to my own. That seems like it might be a pretty good indication that I have got things backwards!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This quote is from Oden&#8217;s book\u00a0John Wesley&#8217;s Teachings, Volume 4:Ethics and Society, page 29. &#8220;To will what God wills&#8221; &#8211; what a profound phrase!\u00a0 How many of us, if asked to measure our current Christian lives by that standard, could unequivocally confirm that a desire &#8220;to will what God wills&#8221; composes the very center of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8189,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8187\/revisions\/8189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}