{"id":7761,"date":"2025-12-10T03:04:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T09:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=7761"},"modified":"2025-12-10T03:04:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T09:04:58","slug":"i-dont-understand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=7761","title":{"rendered":"I DON&#8217;T UNDERSTAND"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t understand.&#8221;<br>&#8212; frustrating<br>&#8212; Biblical<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you express your frustration with those words ?<br>Do you then try harder to understsnd and fix what you don&#8217;t understand ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More frustration ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When we try to understand life&#8217;s frustrations, and we think we understand, and talk like we understand&#8212;we are not on Biblical footing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, how is the comment of frustration Biblical ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you say, &#8220;I don&#8217;t understand&#8221;, and you give up on your understanding, you are on the first step toward &#8216;Biblical understanding&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bible says, &#8220;. . . do not lean on your own understanding.&#8221;<br>And how do I do that ?<br>The Bible says, &#8220;Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will direct your paths.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Memorize that verse and say it aloud over and over to overcome the frustration of trying to understand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God&#8217;s Words have power, and His Words have power in our lives when we claim them by saying them&#8212;all to His Glory and His Will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t understand.&#8221;&#8212; frustrating&#8212; Biblical Do you express your frustration with those words ?Do you then try harder to understsnd and fix what you don&#8217;t understand ? More frustration ? When we try to understand life&#8217;s frustrations, and we think we understand, and talk like we understand&#8212;we are not on Biblical footing. So, how is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith_based","category-inspire_lifter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7761"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7762,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7761\/revisions\/7762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}