{"id":2387,"date":"2013-09-27T00:00:55","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T05:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=2387"},"modified":"2013-09-26T22:29:01","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T03:29:01","slug":"four-options-or-are-there-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=2387","title":{"rendered":"FOUR OPTIONS&#8230;OR ARE THERE MORE?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"irc_mi\" style=\"margin-top: 90px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/miamism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/m\/blogs\/miamism\/options.jpg\" width=\"283\" height=\"212\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>I was talking with a friend recently on the subject of disappointment with God. \u00a0What do you do when your experience makes it clear that your view of God can&#8217;t be correct. \u00a0 It got me thinking about the options people take. \u00a0And there seems to be four of them:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Keep dutifully doing the right things when inside you are seething with anger.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Go insane, and yes, I mean literally. \u00a0I do know a few who chose this tragic option when God did not act the way(s) they expected.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chuck the Christian faith. \u00a0It seems the best option for the person who wants to stop the charade when they no longer trust God.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And fourth&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Slowly, painfully, but redemptively realize one&#8217;s view of God was wrong. \u00a0Get to know the true God better and find that He is still trustworthy even amidst all the struggles, pain, and unanswered questions. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;m afraid we have too many choosing one of the first three options because option four is simply too messy for our sanitized vision of sanctification.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking with a friend recently on the subject of disappointment with God. \u00a0What do you do when your experience makes it clear that your view of God can&#8217;t be correct. \u00a0 It got me thinking about the options people take. \u00a0And there seems to be four of them: Keep dutifully doing the right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,14,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-suffering","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2387"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2390,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387\/revisions\/2390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}