{"id":413,"date":"2019-11-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/index.php\/2019\/11\/27\/its-a-necessary-part-of-the-process\/"},"modified":"2019-11-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T14:00:00","slug":"its-a-necessary-part-of-the-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/its-a-necessary-part-of-the-process\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s A Necessary Part Of The Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why are you still here? When Jesus saved you, why didn\u2019t He simply take you to Heaven to be with Him? Because He\u2019s not only interested in your final destination; He wants to do a work <i>in<\/i> you and <i>through<\/i> you on the way to it. We get impatient when it comes to God\u2019s will for our lives. We just want to get there! But a great deal of time usually elapses between when God calls us and when we\u2019ve fulfilled His will for our lives. And until we accept that, we\u2019re not ready to go anywhere! <\/p>\n<p>We need to understand that the journey is an important process. It matters to God what you <i>become<\/i> on the way to where you\u2019re <i>going.<\/i> And following Him in obedience through many unknowns, trials, and difficulties is an integral and indispensable part of your preparation. God uses the journey to teach you faith, refine your character, and equip you for greater challenges that lie ahead. In fact, if you\u2019re in the process of seeking God\u2019s will right now, you\u2019re already fulfilling part of it in your life. <\/p>\n<p>God said, <i>\u2018I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go.\u2019<\/i> Don\u2019t make the mistake of thinking that because you don\u2019t know all you\u2019d like to, you\u2019re not making progress. Something is happening right now. Your faith is being stretched, your patience is being developed, your doubts are being confronted and conquered, and your relationship with God is growing deeper. He always prepares us in advance for what He has planned ahead for us. Yes, the struggle is uncomfortable\u2014but it\u2019s a necessary part of the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why are you still here? When Jesus saved you, why didn\u2019t He simply take you to Heaven to be with Him? Because He\u2019s not only interested in your final destination; He wants to do a work in you and through you on the way to it. We get impatient when it comes to God\u2019s will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}