{"id":9337,"date":"2023-01-18T03:31:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T03:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9337"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:33:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:33:46","slug":"gods-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9337","title":{"rendered":"GOD&#8217;S GOOD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I read in Romans 8:28 that God &#8220;works in all things to the good of those who love Him and who have been called according to His purposes&#8221;, I have to ask: do I believe it?<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am trying to. We&#8217;ve been hit with some genuine financial concerns at a time when much of my extra effort is going toward developing writing skills and studying to earn a doctorate.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both of these are investments in future opportunities but they don&#8217;t pay the bills right now.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I have a deep, abiding sense that both of these efforts are part of God&#8217;s purpose for me, so I do trust that God is at work for our good in the present struggle.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The only question is how much suffering will it entail in the short run?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I read in Romans 8:28 that God &#8220;works in all things to the good of those who love Him and who have been called according to His purposes&#8221;, I have to ask: do I believe it? I am trying to. We&#8217;ve been hit with some genuine financial concerns at a time when much of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9337","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=9337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9338,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9337\/revisions\/9338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}