{"id":2982,"date":"2020-03-26T15:53:15","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T22:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/?p=2982"},"modified":"2020-03-28T18:09:57","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T01:09:57","slug":"march-26-devotional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/?p=2982","title":{"rendered":"March 26 Devotional"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Hobart Herd Devotional \u2013 Proverbs 26<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>March 26, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hello\nHobart Herd,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; As I was reading through this chapter in\nProverbs, I was first reminded of how I as a Pastor should be careful in\ndealing with fools.&nbsp; Most of this chapter\nhas instructions on how to speak and deal with those who are fools.&nbsp; I began to think that there might not be any\nthing here to apply to my life!&nbsp; But God\u2019s\nWord is faithful, and His Spirit knows how to convict and bring Truth to bear\nin my life.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&nbsp; Verses 11-12 says, \u201cLike a dog that returns\nto his vomit is a fool who repeats his folly.&nbsp;\nDo you see a man who is wise in his own eyes?&nbsp; There is more hope for a fool than for him.\u201d&nbsp; Ouch!&nbsp;\nSo many times I find myself doing things that I know are wrong and\nfoolish and I think that nobody sees or knows, continually returning like the\ndog to his vomit.&nbsp; I think that I am so\nwise that no one will know, and everyone will think that I am a wise man, not a\nsinner saved by God\u2019s grace.&nbsp; I become\nwise in my own eyes and become worse than a fool who doesn\u2019t know better.&nbsp; Today I need to humble myself before the Lord\nand ask Him to give me His mercy, grace, wisdom and love so that I can take\ncare of my foolishness and sin first.&nbsp;\nThen maybe He can use me to help others.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; Father, I ask forgiveness for my foolish selfish\npride that makes me think that I am not in need of Your grace.&nbsp; I humbly ask that You take the truth of Your\nWord and guide me in the paths of righteousness instead of foolish\nthinking.&nbsp; May I never forget my sinful\npatterns can only be broken by Your Spirit\u2019s control of my life.&nbsp; Help me to humble myself and allow You to\nlife me up in Your wisdom, truth and love.&nbsp;\nMay you receive the glory as I go about my day in Your power.&nbsp; Amen <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hobart Herd Devotional \u2013 Proverbs 26 March 26, 2020 Hello Hobart Herd, &nbsp;&nbsp; As I was reading through this chapter in Proverbs, I was first reminded of how I as a Pastor should be careful in dealing with fools.&nbsp; Most &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[142],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2982"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2983,"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2982\/revisions\/2983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}