{"id":3318,"date":"2013-08-15T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/dailyevotional\/?p=3318"},"modified":"2013-08-14T14:16:38","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T21:16:38","slug":"do-not-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/do-not-do-it\/","title":{"rendered":"DO NOT DO IT!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><strong>Proverbs 3:5-7<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><em>Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight. Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD and shun evil.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Have you ever found yourself in the midst of a situation that seemed to have no solution? I am tempted to describe one or two, but if I do it may prevent you from relating to your own particular no-win situation. How do we cope?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"justify\">In this Scripture in Proverbs, we see there are two things we are cautioned to avoid: (1) <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Relying on our own understanding<\/strong><\/span>. \u00a0(2) <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Being wise in our own eyes<\/strong><\/span>. These are hard for us to accomplish since we want to be in control of things around us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"justify\">When we encounter evil or injustice, we rise up with righteous indignation and want to correct the situation. James 1:19-20 makes it clear that our fervent anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"justify\">If we are to avoid using our own abilities, is there anything we can do when faced with the problems that confront us? The answer is very clear. It begins with <em>trusting in the Lord with all of our heart<\/em>. That means letting go and letting God have control.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"justify\">Secondly we must <em>acknowledge<\/em> God in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>all<\/strong><\/span> of our ways. The Hebrew word for <em>acknowledge<\/em> is the word <em>yada<\/em>. It means in part <em>to learn more and more about God and His ways<\/em>. We do that as we rest in Him, study His Word, and discover more of His wonderful attributes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Blessings dear hearts. Draw near to God today, trust Him completely and be a blessing!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&#8212;Pastor Cecil<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proverbs 3:5-7 Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight. Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD and shun evil. Have you ever found yourself in the midst of a situation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-proverbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}