{"id":1903,"date":"2015-05-14T18:03:58","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T00:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kensummers.org\/?p=1903"},"modified":"2015-05-14T18:03:58","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T00:03:58","slug":"when-you-are-ready-to-give-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kensummers.org\/?p=1903","title":{"rendered":"When You Are Ready to Give Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kensummers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-1906 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/kensummers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image-300x247.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kensummers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image-300x247.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kensummers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image-1024x843.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kensummers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image.jpg 1380w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Today has been a travel day for me. It was the first time for me to drive myself to the airport and fly on my own. It went went well because I traveled only with a backpack.<\/p>\n<p>Nathan, Mckenzie and Carter met me at the airport and we plowed our \u00a0way through Atalanta traffic. I have an HOA meeting tonight that I will try to participate in through Skype.<\/p>\n<p>BIBLE VERSE FOR TODAY&#8230; &#8220;When I am ready to give up, He knows what I should do&#8230;&#8221; Psalm 142:3<\/p>\n<p>This verse is straight forward and to the point. Have you ever felt like giving up? We all have at some point. It may be a task, a calling or job, a relationship or for some it may be as severe as life itself.<\/p>\n<p>Often at that point in our frustration and despair we may say to ourselves, &#8220;I just don&#8217;t know what to do!&#8221; That is where the psalmist was in his situation. But he realized that while he didn&#8217;t know what to do The Lord did.<\/p>\n<p>Since we don&#8217;t know and the Lord does, what do we do? &#8220;I call The Lord for help&#8230;I tell Him all my troubles&#8230;&#8221; (Psalm142:2,3) That is what the Psalmist did. Even when it seemed there was no help from any other source his reliance on the \u00a0Lord was, &#8220;Lord I cry to you for help, Lord, you are my protector, you are all I want in this life.&#8221; (Psalm 142:5)<\/p>\n<p>In your situation when you are ready to give up and don&#8217;t know what to do, turn to The Lord. And then take time to wait and listen. \u00a0You will find no greater source of strength and refuge.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today has been a travel day for me. It was the first time for me to drive myself to the airport and fly on my own. It went went well because I traveled only with a backpack. Nathan, Mckenzie and Carter met me at the airport and we plowed our \u00a0way through Atalanta traffic. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kensummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kensummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kensummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kensummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kensummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1903"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kensummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1907,"href":"https:\/\/kensummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903\/revisions\/1907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kensummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kensummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kensummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}