{"id":7973,"date":"2025-05-14T13:45:01","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T13:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=7973"},"modified":"2025-05-14T13:45:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T13:45:01","slug":"putting-on-the-new-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2025\/05\/14\/putting-on-the-new-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting on The New Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture Ephesians 4:24 and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness. <\/p>\n<p>Observation: I remember the old man I was before my Lord came into my life.  He was a terrible guy, a bad husband, father, friend, son and brother.  He was so bad I continually tried to get rid of him, the world would be a better place without him I thought.  God had something different in mind.  He fitted me a with new man.  The fit was perfect, after all it was tailored made for me from God.  It took a little while to get use to the new one, but each day God took the time to show me how it worked.  I don\u2019t miss the old one at all and I\u2019m really enjoying this new one.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to realize all the wonderful things I\u2019m experiencing are from God and to stay humble and enjoy my new journey.  Realize that God loves me so much and is patient and knew the right time for me to be changed in this new creation.  If anyone complements me on my new look I need to give glory to my designer.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer My Lord, I know You loved me even the way I use to be, but loved me too much to allow me to stay that way.  Each day is new and I need your help to grow closer to you and become just a little more like your Son.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture Ephesians 4:24 and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness. Observation: I remember the old man I was before my Lord came into my life. He was a terrible guy, a bad husband, father, friend, son and brother. He was so bad I &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7974,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7973","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\/7973","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=7973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7975,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7973\/revisions\/7975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}