{"id":40743,"date":"2021-11-01T11:01:51","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T16:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=40743"},"modified":"2021-11-01T11:34:33","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T16:34:33","slug":"when-god-feels-far-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=40743","title":{"rendered":"When God Feels Far Away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>This week the blog is sponsored by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bakerpublishinggroup.com\/bakerbooks\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Baker Books<\/a> and is adapted from Jamie Rasmussen\u2019s new book <a href=\"https:\/\/bakerbookhouse.com\/products\/277403\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">When God Feels Far Away: Eight Ways to Navigate Divine Distance<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re anything like me and consider yourself a Christian, you and I would probably agree on a few \u2018essentials.\u2019. Things like believing God is real, that He is good, and that His grace is revealed to us through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. We would also agree that because of what Jesus did on the cross, and our faith in His completed work, we can enjoy an ongoing relationship with God, and He is always with us.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is, it doesn\u2019t always feel like it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In fact, if I can be completely honest and vulnerable, there are times when it not only feels like God is not with me, it feels like He\u2019s far away. Like \u201cElvis has left the building\u201d far away. And after 40 years of being part of this Christ-following tribe and 35 years as a pastor, I know I\u2019m not alone. I\u2019ve never bothered to count, but if I had, I would have lost count of the number of people who<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week the blog is sponsored by Baker Books and is adapted from Jamie Rasmussen\u2019s new book When God Feels Far Away: Eight Ways to Navigate Divine Distance.\u00a0 If you\u2019re anything like me and consider yourself a Christian, you and I would probably agree on a few \u2018essentials.\u2019. Things like believing God is real, that He is good, and that His grace is revealed to us through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. We would also agree that because \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":40746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[950],"class_list":["post-40743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tim-challies","tag-sponsored","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/338911_RasmussenWhenGodFeelsFarAway_ChalliesGraphics-910x320-1-1.jpg?fit=910%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40743"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40748,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40743\/revisions\/40748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}