{"id":38846,"date":"2025-03-02T01:21:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T00:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/?p=38846"},"modified":"2025-02-27T15:29:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T14:29:54","slug":"gracious-in-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.godloves.me\/en\/gracious-in-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Gracious in failure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I like Thursdays as I&#8217;m in the city for my part-time studies and enjoy the change. After the first lesson, during the break, I went to my favourite supermarket. Like every week, I went to the refrigerated section, grabbed a cold coffee and made my way to the checkout. Then it happened: SPLASH &#8211; the coffee drink falls to the floor and bursts &#8211; a huge mess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was so embarrassed. I looked for an employee, told him about my mishap and asked for a cloth to wipe up the mess. The man smiled at me and said: \u2018No problem, I&#8217;ll do it for you.\u2019 I didn&#8217;t even have to pay for the broken coffee drink, I can just get a new one.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grateful and relieved, I walked back to the study centre with my new coffee drink. On the way, I think about the experience. I feel as if I see Jesus in this man. Jesus, who meets me graciously in my failure, looks at me lovingly and says: \u2018I have paid for your failure so that you can live free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you accept his grace in your failure?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Applicable Bible text:\u00a0<strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bibleserver.com\/KJV\/Luke15%3A11-32\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Luke 15:11-32<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like Thursdays as I&#8217;m in the city for my part-time studies and enjoy the change. After the first lesson, during the break, I went to my favourite supermarket. Like every week, I went to the refrigerated section, grabbed a cold coffee and made my way to the checkout. Then it happened: SPLASH &#8211; the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38848,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-en_blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}