{"id":11344,"date":"2022-06-07T08:51:32","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T12:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=11344"},"modified":"2022-06-04T20:53:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T00:53:20","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-june-7-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=11344","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for June 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe become too much like Peter when we relate to God based on getting what we want, which is really a way of saying that our faith is conditional.\u00a0 Our trust is then not actually in the Lord, but in ourselves.\u00a0 We may not ask to walk on the water, but we judge the importance of faithfulness to the Lord on whether He gives us the results that we want.\u00a0 When things do not go as we would like, the weakness of our faith becomes clear, for then we sink into doubt, despair, and a lack of commitment to find the healing for our souls.\u00a0\u201c<\/p>\n<p>(Fr Philip Lemasters,\u00a0 Eastern Christian Insights blog)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11345\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Dense_forest_-_Chikmanglur-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Dense_forest_-_Chikmanglur-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Dense_forest_-_Chikmanglur-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Dense_forest_-_Chikmanglur-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Dense_forest_-_Chikmanglur-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe become too much like Peter when we relate to God based on getting what we want, which is really a way of saying that our faith is conditional.\u00a0 Our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodox-quotes","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11346,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11344\/revisions\/11346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}