{"id":91,"date":"2011-05-17T20:15:09","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T20:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihsteps.com\/wordpress\/?p=91"},"modified":"2011-05-17T20:15:09","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T20:15:09","slug":"making-christ-familiar-by-tammy-maseberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inhisstepsministry.com\/?p=91","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Making Christ Familiar&#8221; by Tammy Maseberg&#8211;May 16, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cTherefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.\u201d\u00a0 (II Corinthians 5:17, NAS)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I take a multi-vitamin supplement that I mix in orange juice and then drink.\u00a0 When I first starting taking this, it tasted funny\u2014foreign.\u00a0 Now after several months of this regimen, orange juice by itself actually tastes weird.\u00a0 Our bodies and minds will adapt to things that we expose them to over and over.\u00a0 So, this made me ponder my relationship with the Lord.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When we first come to know Jesus as Savior, His presence in our lives seems foreign\u2014it \u201ctastes\u201d funny.\u00a0 Maybe it seems as if He is an intruder of sorts.\u00a0 Then, as times goes by, we become more accustom to walking with Him and having Him by our side.\u00a0 We want more and more of Him and what He has for us.\u00a0 As with my taste for plain orange juice now, if I tried to walk through this life now without Jesus it would be foreign to me.\u00a0 Now, I can\u2019t imagine my life without Him.\u00a0 I don\u2019t want to navigate through anything in this life, good or bad, without my Lord.\u00a0 The good news is that we don\u2019t have to.\u00a0 He promises to always be with us.\u00a0 What a comfort! <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Blessings for your day, Tammy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00a92011 Tammy Maseberg All Rights Reserved<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTherefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.\u201d\u00a0 (II Corinthians 5:17, NAS) \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I take a multi-vitamin supplement that I mix in orange juice and then drink.\u00a0 When I first starting taking this, it tasted funny\u2014foreign.\u00a0 Now after several months of this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-word-from-tammy-maseberg","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inhisstepsministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inhisstepsministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inhisstepsministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inhisstepsministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inhisstepsministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inhisstepsministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inhisstepsministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inhisstepsministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inhisstepsministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}