{"id":5150,"date":"2016-07-19T06:00:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T13:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/daily-e-votional\/?p=5150"},"modified":"2016-07-18T13:46:34","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T20:46:34","slug":"why-dont-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/why-dont-you\/","title":{"rendered":"WHY DON\u2019T YOU?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Galatians 3:2-3<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><em>\u201c<\/em><em>This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh?<\/em><em>\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I can almost remember my childhood days. Believe me they are far back in my rear view mirror. One thing I do recall is having arguments with other my brother or other kids and using the phrase; <em>\u201cWhy don\u2019t you?\u201d<\/em> The reply was usually; <em>\u201cWell, why don\u2019t you?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately this same argument is often carried into married life. Many times I have tried to counsel couples who seem to be stuck in the same childhood rut of argumentation. It never seems to resolve their problems.<\/p>\n<p>I have tried to counsel couples who are caught in this whirlpool of conflict to replace the phrase with, <em>\u201cHow can I?\u201d<\/em> What a difference it makes to offer to make a change in one\u2019s own life rather than demanding the other person make a change.<\/p>\n<p>This is even more significant when it comes to our relationship with God. Let\u2019s face it, there many times when we want God to do the changing. We pray that same question; <em>\u201cGod why don\u2019t You?\u201d<\/em> We want God to do the changing to meet our own desires. If we truly accept what Paul is writing in today\u2019s Scripture, we will be prepared to ask Him, <em>\u201cLord, how can I?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>May God richly bless you as you bless others by your words and actions!<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; Pastor Cecil<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Galatians 3:2-3 \u201cThis only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh?\u201d\u00a0 I can almost remember my childhood days. Believe me they [&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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-galatians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5150","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=5150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}