{"query": "A parable — Fear of god", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_653e4ac3ff00", "title": "A parable — Fear of god", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A young man asked an elder, 'Where does wisdom begin?' The elder said, 'At the door of the only one larger than your question.' The young man went to that door and knelt. He did not ask first; he wait"}, {"id": "card_n_04502b1ebf95", "title": "A parable — Fear failure", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A servant was given one talent and feared losing it, so he buried it in the ground. When the master returned, the talent was safe — exactly as it had been given. The master called him wicked, not for "}, {"id": "card_n_5cc788344ecd", "title": "A parable — Fear death", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man feared the sea his whole life, for he could not see the bottom. One day a child waded out, laughed, and waded back. The depth had not changed. Only the child trusted the One who made the water.\n"}, {"id": "card_n_47bb4f1e56b0", "title": "A parable — Fear future", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man walked toward a forest and saw, miles ahead, that the trees were dark. He carried for hours the weight of what he would find there — until the path turned, and the forest was not on his road at "}, {"id": "card_n_bb89dbd4d157", "title": "A parable — Water anomaly", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "In the deep of winter the lake froze. The fish below thought all was lost. But the water near the bed grew warmer than the ice above, for the maker had made water unlike all other things — densest jus"}, {"id": "card_n_c89b1dca1f02", "title": "A parable — Sabbath", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Six days the Maker made the earth, and on the seventh he rested — not because he was tired, but because rest was the seal he set in time. Those who do not rest are not earning more; they are denying t"}, {"id": "card_n_d020834a87f2", "title": "A parable — Temptation", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man. The new temptation you fear is not new — only newly aimed at you. With the temptation, the same road has a door. The door is sometimes "}, {"id": "card_n_e518ae8c8e4c", "title": "A parable — Doubt silence", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The psalmist cried: My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? He cried it day and night, and there was no answer. He wrote the cry down anyway. Centuries later the Son of God said the same words from"}, {"id": "card_n_0c29d0e6bba0", "title": "A parable — Calling finding", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A prophet stood on a mountain and waited for God in the wind. The wind came and was loud, but God was not in it. Then earthquake, then fire — and God was in neither. After all of that, a still small v"}, {"id": "card_n_152adfad178f", "title": "A parable — Pride status", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The Son of God, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God — but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was found in fashion as a man. T"}, {"id": "card_n_90ab16a347bd", "title": "A parable — Suffering grief", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "When his friend died, the Lord did not say, 'do not mourn, for I will raise him.' He wept first. He raised him afterward. The tears were not a failure of faith — they were faith making room for love.\n"}, {"id": "card_n_a4f4879a436b", "title": "A parable — Doubt hidden", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man searched for the One who made the world, and could not see him. He concluded the One was not there. He had not yet considered that the made could not contain the maker — that any God you could s"}, {"id": "card_n_646dfa6224c0", "title": "Easton: Fear of the Lord the", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Is in the Old Testament used as a designation of true piety (Prov. 1:7; Job 28:28; Ps. 19:9). It is a fear conjoined with love and hope, and is therefore not a slavish dread, but rather filial reveren"}, {"id": "card_n_70e9d4c2ce55", "title": "A parable — Legacy seed", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A seed in the farmer's hand was tight and small. It was sure of its smallness. It thought it would remain a seed forever. The farmer dropped it into the earth and it disappeared. The seed never saw th"}, {"id": "card_n_5251cf7a9b90", "title": "A parable — Pride praise", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man stood at the front of the temple and thanked God he was not like other men — extortioners, unjust, adulterers. A second man stood at the back and would not lift his eyes, and only said, God be m"}, {"id": "card_n_3ff4bf122956", "title": "A parable — Hope waiting", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A woman waited for the child she could not have. Year by year the hope deferred made her heart sick. Then one day, late and against every expectation, the child came, and the hope was a tree, and the "}, {"id": "card_n_7f99bc358c45", "title": "A parable — Critical path", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A builder was behind on his work. He hired more men, but the wall waited on the stone, and the stone waited on the kiln, and the kiln waited on the fire, and the fire could only burn at the speed of f"}, {"id": "card_n_c8454734e99f", "title": "A parable — Imposter", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A young scribe was given the seal of the king and told to write in his name. He wrote, but at every line he expected the king to come and say, 'You are not me.' The king never came. The seal had been "}, {"id": "card_n_f1c2cf8a54d5", "title": "A parable — Worry what if", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A woman lay awake and ran every path her child might walk for a thousand miles. By morning she had aged a year, and the child had walked one mile, and the road had been gentle. She kissed him goodbye "}, {"id": "card_n_9906f77428f7", "title": "A parable — Supercooling", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The water in the still glass cooled past freezing, and yet did not freeze. It waited, perfect and clear, for a single grain of dust. When the grain fell, the water turned to ice in an instant. The col"}]}