{"id":6574,"date":"2024-02-26T15:11:09","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T15:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=6574"},"modified":"2024-02-26T15:11:09","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T15:11:09","slug":"do-not-forsake-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2024\/02\/26\/do-not-forsake-the-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Not Forsake the Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture Proverbs 28:4 Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, But such as keep the law contend with them. <\/p>\n<p>Observation: To forsake the law is to sin and do what is against God\u2019s commands, which makes us wicked.  I hate being called wicked but by definition that is what I am when I go against God\u2019s law and if I obey God\u2019s commands then I can be a light to the wicked.  It I so easy to justify our actions so we can continue to sin, but if it against God\u2019s law it is just purely sin.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to stop justifying my wrong actions and start obeying God.  I\u2019m called to be a child of God, a light in this wicked world and I can only do that if I\u2019m right with the Lord.  Stop and pray before I do anything and make sure it honors my Lord.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: Dear Lord I continue to stray off course and need your law to guide me.  Fill me with the Holy Spirit and keep me on the path that you have chosen for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture Proverbs 28:4 Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, But such as keep the law contend with them. Observation: To forsake the law is to sin and do what is against God\u2019s commands, which makes us wicked. I hate being called wicked but by definition that is what I am when I go &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6575,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6574","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\/6574","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=6574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6576,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6574\/revisions\/6576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}