{"id":139,"date":"2011-01-20T15:23:29","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T19:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.slentz.us\/wordpress\/?p=139"},"modified":"2011-01-20T15:23:29","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T19:23:29","slug":"beware-of-first-glance-optical-illusions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slentz.org\/blog\/devotional\/beware-of-first-glance-optical-illusions\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware of "First Glance" Optical Illusions!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>“And Joseph dreamed a dream…” (Genesis 37:5)<\/em> Dreams are strange things as Joseph soon discovered. These dreams birthed purpose into his heart\u00a0of such reality that he could not\u00a0keep quiet. Yet, as the wheels of destiny turned, a casual first glance would seem to indicate that Joseph had been sucked into a downward spiral of events. But those events were optical illusions <\/strong>of the first degree! What\u00a0had the appearance of\u00a0dragging Joseph down and far away from his dreams was literally the very force\u00a0propelling him into God’s majestic purpose!
\nGreat caution must be taken\u00a0to seek for and respect God’s loving hand moving us into His divine purpose. May God help me to beware of those casual, but misleading “first glances”! May His Word be the lamp upon each step I take\u00a0and the brightening of the path ahead of me so that I never allow the\u00a0optical illusions<\/strong> of contrary events to persuade me to turn aside from God’s purpose upon my life!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“And Joseph dreamed a dream…” (Genesis 37:5) Dreams are strange things as Joseph soon discovered. These dreams birthed purpose into his heart\u00a0of such reality that …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[66,68,75,80,108,152,223],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-dealings-of-god","tag-destiny","tag-dreams","tag-eternal-purpose","tag-hand-of-god","tag-optical-illusions","tag-trust"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8ofw-2f","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slentz.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slentz.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slentz.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slentz.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slentz.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/slentz.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slentz.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slentz.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slentz.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}