{"id":8002,"date":"2017-04-30T13:35:43","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T18:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=8002"},"modified":"2017-04-23T08:36:07","modified_gmt":"2017-04-23T13:36:07","slug":"everything-is-a-free-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=8002","title":{"rendered":"Everything is a free gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Once we know through faith in Christ\u2019s work for us that we are reconciled to God, and that the Creator is now not just our sovereign but our father, we can begin to have a more \u201csacramental\u201d experience of the world. We see everything as a free gift from Father and a foretaste of the glory and goodness to come in our eternal inheritance. In short, as Miroslav Volf puts it, \u201cAttachment to God amplifies and deepens enjoyment of the world.\u201d It does not diminish it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;<span class=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kindle.amazon.com\/work\/making-sense-god-invitation-skeptical-ebook\/B01BXDWDDE\/B01COJUG58\">Making Sense of God: An Invitation to the Skeptical<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"author\">by Timothy Keller<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once we know through faith in Christ\u2019s work for us that we are reconciled to God, and that the Creator is now not just our sovereign but our father, we can begin to have a more \u201csacramental\u201d experience of the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=8002\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[65,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spain","category-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34kFn-254","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8003,"href":"http:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8002\/revisions\/8003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}