{"id":14447,"date":"2016-08-18T01:02:53","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T06:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/problemssolutions-to\/"},"modified":"2016-08-18T01:02:53","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T06:02:53","slug":"problemssolutions-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/problemssolutions-to\/","title":{"rendered":"PROBLEMS,\nSOLUTIONS TO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>SOMETIMES the solutions we seek from God are quite unexpected. He may tell us to do something that doesn\u2019t make sense or that contradicts our natural reactions or responses.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>We\u2019ve all seen movies where people get stuck in quicksand. Quicksand is, very simply, sand and water. The problem is that the water loosens up the sand so that the sand is not compact and there is nothing to stand on. Compacted sand is a surface that can support a person and give them something to move on. Once you mix that same sand with water, all of a sudden there\u2019s no traction left.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>The problem is, when a person gets stuck in quicksand, the harder they try to get out, the deeper and faster they go under. The harder they try, the worse things get because the nature of quicksand is to pull them down the more they try and move.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Now, the person who gets stuck in quicksand who knows how to handle it doesn\u2019t fight to stay up.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>What they do is slowly paddle underneath, moving an inch here and an inch there, until hopefully they can get to a bank. The nature of some problems is that the harder you try to get out of it, the deeper you\u2019re going to wind up in it. Sometimes the answer to a problem is not a commonly prescribed approach to it.734<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>[God\u2019s Ways, Unpredictability of]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOMETIMES the solutions we seek from God are quite unexpected. He may tell us to do something that doesn\u2019t make sense or that contradicts our natural reactions or responses. We\u2019ve all seen movies where people get stuck in quicksand. Quicksand is, very simply, sand and water. The problem is that the water loosens up the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/problemssolutions-to\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;PROBLEMS,<br \/>\nSOLUTIONS TO&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}