{"id":2728,"date":"2023-10-23T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myutmostforprd.wpenginepowered.com\/modern-classic\/not-a-bit-of-it\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T08:31:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T01:31:47","slug":"tidak-sedikit","status":"publish","type":"modern-classic","link":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/id\/modern-classic\/not-a-bit-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Tidak Sedikitpun!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our Lord never nurses our prejudices; he destroys them. We imagine that God has a special interest in our personal preferences. We\u2019re sure he\u2019ll never deal with us as he does with others. We think, \u201cWell, of course God has to handle <em>those<\/em> people in a very stern way, but he knows my prejudices are OK.\u201d Not a bit of it! Instead of God being on the side of our prejudices, he is deliberately wiping them out. It\u2019s part of our moral education to have our prejudices pierced straight through by his providence.<\/p>\n<p>God wants only one thing from us: unconditional surrender. When we are born again, the Holy Spirit begins to work his new creation inside us, and a time will come when the old life will have gone entirely\u2014the old sense of self-importance, the old attitudes and bigotries. Then we will be a \u201cnew creation,\u201d knowing that \u201call this is from God\u201d (2 Corinthians 5:17\u201318).<\/p>\n<p>How are we to get this new life? The life that has no lust, no self-interest, no oversensitivity? How will we get the love that is not easily angered, that thinks no evil, that is always kind (1 Corinthians 13:4\u20136)? The only way is by allowing nothing of the old life to remain\u2014only simple, perfect trust in God, such trust that we no longer want God\u2019s blessings, only God himself. Have we come to the place where God can withdraw his blessings and it doesn\u2019t shake our trust in him? Once we\u2019ve seen God at work, we will never again worry ourselves about what happens. All our trust will be in our Father in heaven, whom the world cannot see.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Lord never nurses our prejudices; he destroys them. We imagine that God has a special interest in our personal preferences. We\u2019re sure he\u2019ll never deal with us as he does with &#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":2330,"template":"","collection":[],"class_list":["post-2728","modern-classic","type-modern-classic","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/modern-classic\/2728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/modern-classic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/modern-classic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/modern-classic\/2728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=2728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}