{"id":3140,"date":"2021-04-06T15:59:42","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T15:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=3140"},"modified":"2021-04-06T15:59:42","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T15:59:42","slug":"why-do-i-try-to-figure-him-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2021\/04\/06\/why-do-i-try-to-figure-him-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do I Try to Figure Him Out?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Romans 11: 34 &#8220;Who has known the mind of the Lord?<br \/>\n    Or who has been his counselor?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Observation: I don\u2019t know why I try to figure things out for myself when it comes to God.  I think, why would God do that or that doesn\u2019t make sense to me.  That is where faith comes in and obedience to do His will.  If I understood everything my mind would explode and I would no longer walk in faith but my own knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>Application: Know that God is always with me and if I ask for wisdom He will give it to me and guide me a day at a time.  Stop trying to figure things out and worry about future events and trust in God that He will handle each situation as it comes if I let Him.  <\/p>\n<p>Prayer: Dear Lord increase my faith, that I may fully trust You in all things.  Help me give everything to you and fulfill the purpose you have created me for.  Give me peace and a calm spirit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Romans 11: 34 &#8220;Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?&#8221; Observation: I don\u2019t know why I try to figure things out for myself when it comes to God. I think, why would God do that or that doesn\u2019t make sense to me. That is where faith comes &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3140","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\/3140","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=3140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3142,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140\/revisions\/3142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}