{"id":1158,"date":"2016-03-26T17:59:01","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T17:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=1158"},"modified":"2016-03-26T17:59:01","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T17:59:01","slug":"why-like-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2016\/03\/26\/why-like-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Like This?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Romans 9: [20] But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? &#8220;Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, `Why did you make me like this?&#8217; &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Observation: I know most of my life I hated myself and couldn\u2019t figure out why God would make someone so imperfect as me.  I remember the last time I tried to kill myself I told God He made a mistake by making me.  I\u2019m still imperfect yet with the love of God I can see how He can use me and why I was created the way I am.  I was looking at myself through my eyes and not His.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to know I am a creation of the Master and to focus on what He wants of me and not what I want.  I\u2019ll only be happy performing the duties I was created for and not trying to do the things I wasn\u2019t. <\/p>\n<p>Prayer: Dear Lord guide me each day to fulfill the purpose you have created in me in glory and honor to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Romans 9: [20] But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? &#8220;Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, `Why did you make me like this?&#8217; &#8221; Observation: I know most of my life I hated myself and couldn\u2019t figure out why God would make someone so imperfect as &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1159,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-devotional"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1160,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions\/1160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}