Scripture: Genesis 6:5 The LORD saw how great man’s wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time. <\/p>\n
Observation: My thoughts are almost always evil it seems until my thoughts go to God. Even when I pray my thoughts wander and become selfish and evil. As hard as I may try to think and do things that are pleasing to the Lord it doesn\u2019t take long before I end up back to the evil that I am. <\/p>\n
Application: The only way I can even come close to not being evil is to stay focused on my Lord and what His will is for my life. I need to pray throughout the day and think of things that are noble and pure of heart. I know it won\u2019t come natural, because that is not who I am, even though that is what I want to be. I need to be aware of when I do slide back to my natural man and ask God to pull me out of the self-indulgent heart I have.<\/p>\n
Prayer: My Lord I can\u2019t blame you for being disappointed in man, we are evil. Help me rise out of this pit to serve you and others in a self-sacrificial way that will honor you. Show me how to draw close to you and be more like Jesus only caring about my Father\u2019s will. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Scripture: Genesis 6:5 The LORD saw how great man’s wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time. Observation: My thoughts are almost always evil it seems until my thoughts go to God. Even when I pray my thoughts wander and become …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4439,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4438","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\/4438","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=4438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4440,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4438\/revisions\/4440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}