{"id":337,"date":"2012-06-23T10:56:59","date_gmt":"2012-06-23T17:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/?p=337"},"modified":"2012-06-23T10:57:20","modified_gmt":"2012-06-23T17:57:20","slug":"maturity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/?p=337","title":{"rendered":"Maturity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Paraphrased from a message by Rick McKinley at Imago Dei &#8211; a series about Jacob and &#8220;wrestling with God&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Maturity is moving from a place of wanting stuff or blessing FROM God to just wanting God. Jacob encountered God in the desert, saw heaven open, God speak&#8230;and still had the nerve to place conditions on his service to God&#8230;&#8221;if you&#8230;then you will be my God.&#8221; God accepts this anyway. There is faith there, but an immature faith. the rest of the story illustrates a progression in Jacobs faith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paraphrased from a message by Rick McKinley at Imago Dei &#8211; a series about Jacob and &#8220;wrestling with God&#8221; Maturity is moving from a place of wanting stuff or blessing FROM God to just wanting God. Jacob encountered God in the desert, saw heaven open, God speak&#8230;and still had the nerve to place conditions on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/?p=337\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Maturity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-studies-in-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339,"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}