{"id":5124,"date":"2023-11-02T00:42:58","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T05:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nazareneblogs.org\/pastorscott\/?p=5124"},"modified":"2023-11-02T00:42:58","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T05:42:58","slug":"devotional-on-the-psalms-37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/devotional-on-the-psalms-37\/","title":{"rendered":"Devotional on the Psalms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure style=\"width: 1600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-9sGhOjHQDOk\/X0AUsAaW-7I\/AAAAAAABF1c\/O9ztr4s-bhA_JnuVxk9KbvIm12xCHPvgACPcBGAsYHg\/s1600\/IMG_20190818_143209_DRO.jpg\" width=\"1600\" height=\"919\" class=\"size-large\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">2019 &#8211; marina in Wilson, NY<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nSomething better<br \/>\nPsalm 4: I have&#8230;more joy in one ordinary day than they get in all their shopping sprees.<br \/>\nNow here\u2019s a current application of an ancient truth.  Possessions don&#8217;t give true joy but God does.  My society is in love with &#8220;stuff.&#8221;  People stand in line in the cold all night to be one of the first to own the latest toy.  When that expensive bit of plastic is six months old, do they still think it was worth all that discomfort?  I doubt it!  David reminds me that living an &#8220;ordinary day&#8221; in the joy of the Lord is better than having an extraordinary day without him.  The thing is that these people standing in line are doing so because they don&#8217;t know any better.  They think that the latest gadget is the best life has to offer.  When I see them sacrificing so much for so little I\u2019m not to feel superior.  Instead, I\u2019m supposed to feel compassion.  By God&#8217;s grace I know something they don&#8217;t know and I have a commission to somehow show them that there\u2019s something better.<br \/>\nTake Away: Possessions don\u2019t give true joy but God does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something better Psalm 4: I have&#8230;more joy in one ordinary day than they get in all their shopping sprees. Now here\u2019s a current application of an ancient truth. Possessions don&#8217;t give true joy but God does. My society is in love with &#8220;stuff.&#8221; People stand in line in the cold all night to be one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,7],"tags":[148,320,637,837],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5124"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5124"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14772,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5124\/revisions\/14772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}