{"id":159,"date":"2012-07-13T17:48:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T17:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scquest.org\/the-most-precious-treasures-are-in-the-most-difficult-things-by-jon-bloom\/"},"modified":"2013-05-10T15:29:10","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T20:29:10","slug":"the-most-precious-treasures-are-in-the-most-difficult-things-by-jon-bloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=159","title":{"rendered":"The Most Precious Treasures Are in the Most Difficult Things by Jon Bloom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an excellent and encouraging post by Jon Bloom:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hebrews 11 is there to remind you that God is doing far more than you can see in your agonies, these things that are so, so hard and at times seem unbearable. You plead for God to deliver you from them and you wonder why he just keeps letting them go on.<\/p>\n<p>You are in good company. This is how your brothers and sisters throughout history have also felt, most of who are now in the great cloud of witnesses encouraging you to hold on and not give up (Hebrews 12:1). And what they are encouraging you to do mainly is trust God\u2019s promises for you over your perceptions. Faith is \u201cthe conviction of things not seen.\u201d Promises will hold you up; perceptions will likely sink you.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/blog\/posts\/the-most-precious-treasures-are-in-the-most-difficult-things\/ad_link\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"1px_trans\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.desiringgod.org\/images\/1px_trans.png?w=584\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DGBlog\/~4\/GItFZczRj4c\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read all of here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/DGBlog\/~3\/GItFZczRj4c\/the-most-precious-treasures-are-in-the-most-difficult-things\">The Most Precious Treasures Are in the Most Difficult Things<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an excellent and encouraging post by Jon Bloom: &#8220;Hebrews 11 is there to remind you that God is doing far more than you can see in your agonies, these things that are so, so hard and at times &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=159\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34kFn-2z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2359,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/2359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}