{"id":13667,"date":"2013-09-13T21:27:44","date_gmt":"2013-09-14T02:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/?p=13667"},"modified":"2014-05-30T19:44:35","modified_gmt":"2014-05-31T00:44:35","slug":"barren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/13\/barren\/","title":{"rendered":"Barren"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>God does his best work with barren things.<a href=\"http:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/13\/barren\/barren-blog\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13668\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"212\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13668\" alt=\"Barren Blog\" src=\"http:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Barren-Blog.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Barren-Blog.jpg 320w, https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Barren-Blog-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>He built nations from barren wombs.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Sarah, Abraham&#8217;s wife, was barren and yet from her God built a nation of millions!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Elizabeth was barren and from her came John the Baptist.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In Exodus 17 God led his people into a barren desert and in a place where there was no water he made a river for them to drink.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>God does his best work with barren things.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He works with barren lives, lives ravaged by failure, sin, loss, and wasted years.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He works with barren things so the world will see his glory and greatness.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Have you felt like a failure? \u00a0Have you wasted your years? \u00a0Do you think you&#8217;re not good enough, not smart enough, have nothing to offer? \u00a0Then you are just the person God can use. \u00a0He loves working with barren things, broken lives, \u00a0and failures, because through what the world considers &#8220;barren&#8221; God works miracles!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><i>&#8220;For\u00a0consider your\u00a0calling, brethren, that there were\u00a0not many wise according to\u00a0the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble;\u00a0<sup>27\u00a0<\/sup>but\u00a0God has chosen the foolish things of\u00a0the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of\u00a0the world to shame the things which are strong,\u00a0<sup>28\u00a0<\/sup>and the base things of\u00a0the world and the despised God has chosen,\u00a0the things that are not, so that He may\u00a0nullify the things that are,\u00a0<sup>29\u00a0<\/sup>so that\u00a0no\u00a0man may boast before God.\u00a0<sup>30\u00a0<\/sup>But\u00a0by His doing you are in\u00a0Christ Jesus, who became to us\u00a0wisdom from God,\u00a0and\u00a0righteousness and\u00a0sanctification, and\u00a0redemption,\u00a0<sup>31\u00a0<\/sup>so that, just as it is written, \u201cLet him who boasts, boast in the Lord.\u201d&#8221;<\/i><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Visit Mike at <a href=\"http:\/\/mikemesserli.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Finishing Well<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God does his best work with barren things. He built nations from barren wombs. Sarah, Abraham&#8217;s wife, was barren and yet from her God built a nation of millions! Elizabeth was barren and from her came John the Baptist. In Exodus 17 God led his people into a barren desert and in a place where &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/13\/barren\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Barren&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6977,25],"tags":[5149,7029,7028,6853,6903,597,1068,3942,223,7031,1167,6828,261,1428,2404,2247,297,2408,724,7030],"class_list":["post-13667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archived","category-blogs","category-mike","tag-abraham","tag-barren-desert","tag-barren-lives","tag-boast-in-the-lord","tag-brethren","tag-christ-jesus","tag-exodus","tag-failure","tag-flesh","tag-foolish-things","tag-greatness","tag-john-the-baptist","tag-miracles","tag-people","tag-person-god","tag-redemption","tag-righteousness","tag-sanctification","tag-wisdom","tag-wombs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}