{"id":6893,"date":"2024-06-06T13:52:11","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T13:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=6893"},"modified":"2024-06-06T13:52:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T13:52:11","slug":"why-do-the-wicked-prosper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2024\/06\/06\/why-do-the-wicked-prosper\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do the Wicked Prosper?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture Jeremiah 12:1 Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead with You;<br \/>\nYet let me talk with You about Your judgments.<br \/>\nWhy does the way of the wicked prosper?<br \/>\nWhy are those happy who deal so treacherously? <\/p>\n<p>Observation: This is a question that has been asked so many times.  Would you rather suffer for a little while and have the best for all eternity.  So why do the wicked prosper?  Jesus called Satan the prince of this world.  He is allowed to roam this earth to see who he can devour.  What better way to turn good people to evil then to show how the wicked prosper and tempt us to be wicked for our own personal gain.<\/p>\n<p>Application: My time is running short and I\u2019ve run most of my race, but looking back there is nothing in this world that I would want more than my Lord who has given me eternal life through His sacrifice.  My only regret is that I didn\u2019t find Him sooner and do more to please Him.  I\u2019m still running this race so I need to keep going and do the best I can before crossing that finish line.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer Dear Lord thank you for all that you have blessed me with.  I thank you for making me, me and I pray that I finish this race being the best me I can be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture Jeremiah 12:1 Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead with You; Yet let me talk with You about Your judgments. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are those happy who deal so treacherously? Observation: This is a question that has been asked so many times. Would you rather suffer for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6893","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\/6893","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=6893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6895,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6893\/revisions\/6895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}