{"id":3724,"date":"2019-10-15T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/?p=3724"},"modified":"2019-10-14T21:33:32","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T01:33:32","slug":"jesus-is-part-of-our-ev-eryday-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/jesus-is-part-of-our-ev-eryday-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus Is Part of Our Everyday Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3724\" class=\"elementor elementor-3724\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-62d5d17b elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"62d5d17b\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-37ad9a40\" data-id=\"37ad9a40\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-54271437 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"54271437\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 18-04-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p><iframe style=\"border: none;\" title=\"Jesus Is Part of Our Everyday Lives 10\/15\/19\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/yy8fw-c30561?from=yiiadmin&amp;download=1&amp;version=1&amp;skin=1&amp;btn-skin=107&amp;auto=0&amp;share=1&amp;fonts=Helvetica&amp;download=1&amp;rtl=0&amp;pbad=1\" width=\"100%\" height=\"122\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\"><\/iframe><\/p><p>\u00a0<strong style=\"font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: -0.1px;\"><u>Jesus lived with nature and he used nature with which to teach<\/u>. Jesus had his illustrations right at hand. The people could often reach out and touch them.<\/strong><\/p><p dir=\"auto\"><br \/><em>&#8220;Consider the lilies of the field,&#8221;<\/em> Jesus said, and the people looked at a hillside just to their right.<em> &#8220;A certain man went out to sow seed,&#8221;<\/em> Jesus said, and every person in the crowd knew what he was talking about, because they had either sown seed or had seen another do it. <em>&#8220;There was a shepherd who lost a sheep&#8221;. <\/em>There wasn&#8217;t a person there or someone they knew who had not gone searching for such a poor, lost sheep. <em><u>A God Flash<\/u><\/em><\/p><p><strong><em><u>But the marvel with Jesus is that he took such common elements and touched them with eternity<\/u>. <\/em><\/strong>The people who heard him teach knew all about lilies, farming, and sheep, but now they saw those things as messengers of God&#8217;s work in the world. G.K. Chesterton said it well:<\/p><p><strong><em>There was a man who dwelt in the East centuries ago.<br \/>And now I cannot look at a sheep or sparrow,<br \/>A lily or a cornfield, a raven or a sunset,<br \/>A vineyard or a mountain, without thinking of Jesus.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><p><u>When Chesterton wrote those words, he wasn&#8217;t thinking of a tour in the Holy Land, but simply of what the teachings of Jesus had done to his entire outlook on life<\/u>. <strong><u><em>Jesus gives a sacredness to the common elements of our life<\/em><\/u>.<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Jesus lived with nature and he used nature with which to teach. Jesus had his illustrations right at hand. 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