{"id":5045,"date":"2023-10-09T05:24:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T05:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/?p=5045"},"modified":"2023-10-10T05:29:10","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T05:29:10","slug":"there-is-no-short-cut-but-there-is-a-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/2023\/10\/09\/there-is-no-short-cut-but-there-is-a-way\/","title":{"rendered":"THERE IS NO SHORT CUT ,BUT THERE IS A WAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joh 14:6 Jesus answered, \u201cI am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.<\/p>\n<p>As Jesus was biding good bye to the disciples , he emphasized that they already knew the way . But Thomas, being open and truthful  to Him and  to self  said ,\u201cLord, we don\u2019t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?\u201d<br \/>\nIn reply to Thomas query ,Jesus told them that He was the only way , the truth and life .<\/p>\n<p>The world is in search of  ways to achieve ,reach and obtain solutions and answers to seemly many questions of life. Some design shortcuts for achievements only to fall victims along their chosen &#8216;ways&#8217;. In this life, there are no shortcuts to anywhere worth going. The only way to get to where you want to be  is through God&#8217;s plan.<\/p>\n<p>Satan will always be there to offer a shortcut to  marriage, promotion or  even a &#8220;get famous quick option&#8221;. He will always offer an alternative route that seems faster. Jesus was and is still offering the route and and channels on how to obtain true happiness, joy and satisfaction and above all eternal life. He is the way , the truth and the Life.<\/p>\n<p>Further readings:<br \/>\nPsa  107:4-8<br \/>\nJer 29:11<br \/>\nJoh 10:9,10<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude4f Blessed week \ud83d\ude4f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joh 14:6 Jesus answered, \u201cI am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. As Jesus was biding good bye to the disciples , he emphasized that they already knew the way . But Thomas, being open and truthful to Him and to self said ,\u201cLord,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5045"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5047,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5045\/revisions\/5047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}