{"id":339,"date":"2018-12-05T09:39:20","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T17:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrate.bettersermons.org\/?p=339"},"modified":"2020-06-01T11:39:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T18:39:41","slug":"look-to-the-heavens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bettersermons.org\/look-to-the-heavens\/","title":{"rendered":"Look to the Heavens"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span class=\"headline\">Look to the Heavens<\/span><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bettersermons.org\/images\/clear.gif\" alt=\".\" width=\"1\" height=\"10\" \/><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#d5d2cb\">\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"7\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#fafbfa\">&#8220;I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens, and say there is no God.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211;Abraham Lincoln<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Nature is a powerful weapon in God&#8217;s arsenal of spiritual weapons. Being exposed to God&#8217;s creation in all of its glory can soften our jaded senses and transform our thinking. Years ago, when only 17-years old, I went on a camp-out with a friends in central California to a place called Pinnacles National Monument. While there I came to my senses and began my life-long journey with God. This was my moment of truth. And nature certainly played a role in bringing me to the point where I was willing to listen to God.<br \/>\n________________________________________<br \/>\n<span class=\"rsscredit\"><br \/>\nComments by Rich DuBose.\u00a0BetterSermons \u00a9 2010. All rights reserved. Use of this material is subject to<a class=\"rsslinks\" href=\"https:\/\/bettersermons.org\/article.php?id=33\">usage guidelines<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a class=\"rsslinks\" href=\"https:\/\/bettersermons.org\/article.php?id=253\">View main index<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look to the Heavens &#8220;I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bettersermons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bettersermons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bettersermons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bettersermons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bettersermons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bettersermons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/bettersermons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bettersermons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bettersermons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bettersermons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}