{"id":4698,"date":"2019-09-30T03:46:45","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/the-guiding-hand\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T03:46:45","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:46:45","slug":"the-guiding-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/the-guiding-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guiding Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John F. Kennedy Jr., the highly respected son of the late American President John F. Kennedy, was posthumously praised by the editorial staff of George Magazine, a monthly political magazine the young Kennedy co-founded four years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Quoting from the magazine\u2019s latest issue: &#8220;John had a hand in every aspect of creating and producing George \u2013 the big picture and the daily details.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Comments: Reading the eulogies and accolades given to this American icon a Christian would have to reflect on another Son who had a direct &#8220;hand in every aspect of creating and producing \u2026 the big picture and the daily details.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Upon close examination, the believer will notice God\u2019s Son not only aided in the creation of a book but was involved the creation of the whole world. [John 1:3]  Now that is a very big picture.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the book is called the Word, and the Son is the Word.  And this Word is sharper than a two-edged sword \u2026 and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart [Hebrews 4:12; NASB].  We are also told it is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.  [2 Timothy 3:15-16; NASB].  Now those are special daily details.<\/p>\n<p>________<\/p>\n<p>Source\/Attribution: \u00a9 Sermon-Illustrations-Each-Week 1999<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John F. Kennedy Jr., the highly respected son of the late American President John F. Kennedy, was posthumously praised by the editorial staff of George Magazine, a monthly political magazine the young Kennedy co-founded four years ago. Quoting from the magazine\u2019s latest issue: &#8220;John had a hand in every aspect of creating and producing George [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4135,1613,1099,1498],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4698"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}