{"id":5951,"date":"2023-08-31T14:25:22","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T14:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=5951"},"modified":"2023-08-31T14:25:22","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T14:25:22","slug":"god-owns-it-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2023\/08\/31\/god-owns-it-all\/","title":{"rendered":"God Owns It All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture  Job 41:11 Who has preceded Me, that I should pay him? Everything under heaven is Mine. <\/p>\n<p>Observation: There is nothing we can give God, He owns it all.  Everything we see He has created.  The only thing He desires is our obedience and love.  God has allowed us to give it out of our own will, He has given us a choice.  He could have just as easily made us robots making love and obedience the only thing that we could do, but He didn\u2019t want that He wants us to love Him unconditionally and to obey His commands out of love for Him.  It would seem to be an easy decision whether to freely give our Lord what he desires, but we are still fighting these sinful and prideful desires we have.  God owns everything and that includes us, there is no dealing or trading with God we either love Him or we don\u2019t.  It\u2019s our choice.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to stop putting things ahead of God.  My attitude, my desires, my actions and words need to honor my Lord.  I want to draw closer to my God and become a trusted friend to Him as he is to me.  I\u2019m tired of letting Him down all the time I need to be trustworthy each day with my number one thought always being about Him.  My Master can\u2019t take a backseat to what I do, He needs to be in the driver\u2019s seat directing me.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer:  My Lord I know a day doesn\u2019t go by that I go astray and get off the path.  Why is it so hard for me to stay focused on You.  I need your help, please take charge I freely give you this life, take it so that it will glorify you.  I love you and can\u2019t wait to spend forever with you.  May my homecoming bring a smile to your face, because I led a life pleasing to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture Job 41:11 Who has preceded Me, that I should pay him? Everything under heaven is Mine. Observation: There is nothing we can give God, He owns it all. Everything we see He has created. The only thing He desires is our obedience and love. God has allowed us to give it out of our &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5951","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\/5951","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=5951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5953,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5951\/revisions\/5953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}