{"id":1626,"date":"2018-10-28T04:00:11","date_gmt":"2018-10-28T09:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/?p=1626"},"modified":"2018-10-30T08:01:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T13:01:55","slug":"grafted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/?p=1626","title":{"rendered":"Grafted"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every sin large or small hurts those we are sinning against, but I think our sweet\u00a0Jesus\u00a0stands\u00a0in front every time taking the brunt of the damage, accepting one more lash from the whip.<\/p>\n

We have all whipped Him.<\/p>\n

Romans 3:23 …for all have sinned and fall short of the Glory of God…<\/em><\/p>\n

Once we realize, accept and deeply mourn that some of the lacerations on His precious and holy body are from us, we can then thank our sweet and holy and precious Lord for accepting these lashes, because without these fresh wounds and openings we would not be able to climb inside and graft the\u00a0dead twig of our life into the living root of Jesse, Jesus Christ!<\/p>\n

Sweet Lord Jesus, please graft us to You so we might live in You and You may live and bear fruit through us!<\/p>\n

Romans 15:12 \u00a0And again, Isaiah says, “The Root of Jesse will spring up, one who will arise to rule over the nations; in him the Gentiles will hope.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Mark 8:22-26 \u00a0They came to Bethsaida, and some people brought a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him. He took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village. When he had spit on the man\u2019s eyes and put his hands on him, Jesus asked, \u201cDo you see anything?\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

He looked up and said, \u201cI see people; they look like trees walking around.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Once more Jesus put his hands on the man\u2019s eyes. Then his eyes were opened, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly. Jesus sent him home, saying, \u201cDon\u2019t even go into\u00a0the village.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every sin large or small hurts those we are sinning against, but I think our sweet\u00a0Jesus\u00a0stands\u00a0in front every time taking the brunt of the damage, accepting one more lash from the whip. We have all whipped Him. Romans 3:23 …for … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1289,1984,2291],"tags":[2499,54,644,67,2498,2500,2504,2497,92,2490,2491,1503,2487,2494,2492,15,2489,2496,2495,70,55,2501,297,2484,12,51,10,2485,2486,743,2493,73,567,2488,1209,1210,2502,2503,1301,16],"ppma_author":[2854],"class_list":["post-1626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-sorrow-2","category-surrender","category-thanksgiving","tag-alive","tag-best","tag-blind","tag-christ","tag-dead","tag-dead-twig-of-life","tag-for-all-have-sinned-and-fall-short-of-the-glory-of-god","tag-fresh-wound","tag-god","tag-graft","tag-grafted","tag-holy-spirit","tag-i-see-people","tag-isaiah-11","tag-jesse","tag-jesus","tag-jesus-heals-a-blind-man-at-bethsaida","tag-laceration","tag-large","tag-lash","tag-life","tag-living-root","tag-lord","tag-mark-822-26","tag-my-best-life","tag-our","tag-our-best-life","tag-romans-1512","tag-romans-223","tag-root","tag-root-of-jesse","tag-sin","tag-small","tag-they-look-like-trees-walking-around","tag-tree","tag-trees","tag-whip","tag-whipped","tag-wound","tag-your-best-life"],"authors":[{"term_id":2854,"user_id":1,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sbernadac","display_name":"Sarah Bernadac","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d6f6fd27725929c335efc2f3f617d947991447401cb02a573de4c068d7361377?s=96&d=mm&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1626"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1630,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions\/1630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1626"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=1626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}