{"id":2214,"date":"2013-06-03T18:05:22","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T18:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/?p=2214"},"modified":"2013-06-03T20:21:58","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T20:21:58","slug":"the-ugly-truth-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/2013\/06\/03\/the-ugly-truth-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ugly Truth – Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

When God Takes Hold of the Ugliness<\/strong><\/p>\n

This past week we had another water outage. \u00a0We didn’t realize it was taking place until 2 days into the outage. \u00a0At that point we were down to very little water and word on the street was that water would not be coming back for 2 more days. \u00a0There was no calculating how to make our water last, there was just the reality that at some point our water would run out, unless we got more. \u00a0Then there was a knock on the door. \u00a0Sound familiar? \u00a0Yes it was the same experience we were facing a few months ago. \u00a0It was a dear friend who was out of water. \u00a0But this time, my immediate response was, “We don’t have much left, but whatever we have we are happy to share with you.” \u00a0My husband looked at me in shock, because he knew how out of character that was for me. \u00a0I had no plan as to how this would work out, but just had to trust that God would get us through. \u00a0This time when I closed the door instead of being faced with the ugly truth of our sinful nature, I was struck by God’s amazing grace. \u00a0God had not only showed me the ugliness of my situation, he had started right then to help me change. \u00a0Somehow he took such ugliness and transformed it into something beautiful.<\/p>\n

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That is the God we serve - the one who reaches out to us and helps us become something we naturally aren't<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When God Takes Hold of the Ugliness This past week we had another water outage. \u00a0We didn’t realize it was taking place until 2 days into the outage. \u00a0At that point we were down to very little water and word on the street was that water would not be coming back for 2 more days. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":830,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2545],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-updates-and-news","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}