{"id":1772,"date":"2017-06-19T11:27:27","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T11:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/?p=1772"},"modified":"2017-06-19T11:27:27","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T11:27:27","slug":"our-great-trust-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/2017\/06\/19\/our-great-trust-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Great Trust Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"

Romans 8:18 is one of those oft quoted passages which many find to be a source of comfort in their times of trial. Saint Paul weighs present day sufferings against a future glory so vast that everything that tempts us to worry and fret simply pales into nothing:<\/p>\n

\u201cI consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.\u201d<\/p>\n

I recently listened to an old podcast sermon by Tim Keller, and a particular quote really grabbed my interest, and reminded me of the power of perspective. The following isn\u2019t an exact quote, but comes close:<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you are a Christian, if you lose something in this world it\u2019s like someone pickpocketed 25 cents off you, when you have billions somewhere safe in a trust fund.\u201d<\/p>\n

(This was a tossed off remark; the full sermon discussing the part of Jesus\u2019 Sermon on the Mount which is the source of the term \u201cstrait and narrow\u201d, is available online at Gospel in Life<\/a>).<\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Romans 8:18 is one of those oft quoted passages which many find to be a source of comfort in their times of trial. Saint Paul weighs present day sufferings against a future glory so vast that everything that tempts us to worry and fret simply pales into nothing: \u201cI consider that our present sufferings are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,369],"tags":[848,550,850,849,447,847],"class_list":["post-1772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational-sayings","category-theological-ideas","tag-future-glory","tag-heaven","tag-hope","tag-romans-818","tag-tim-keller","tag-trust-fund"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1773,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions\/1773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}