{"id":60467,"date":"2022-11-06T13:10:22","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T13:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=60467"},"modified":"2022-11-06T13:10:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T13:10:22","slug":"our-memories-our-miseries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=60467","title":{"rendered":"Our memories, our miseries?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">The PSALMS and LAMENTATIONS are both Books of the Bible. *<b>The former is largely upbeat in praise while the latter appears depressing.<\/b>* The difference is in what the authors chose to focus their minds on.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">*<b>Listen to David, the Prophet of Praise:<\/b>* &#8220;I will sing of the mercies of the LORD forever; With my mouth will I make known Your faithfulness to all generations&#8221; (Psalms 89:1, NKJV)<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">*<b>Then listen to Jeremiah, the prophet of Lamentations:<\/b>*_ _<i>&#8220;My soul continues to remember\u00a0these things and is so discouraged&#8221;<\/i>_ _(Lamentations 3:20, GWT)<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">*<b>The moment Prophet Jeremiah&#8217;s memories changed, his mood and song also changed:<\/b>*<br \/>\n\u201cThe reason I can\u00a0still\u00a0find hope is that I keep this one thing in mind: \u00a0the\u00a0Lord\u2019s mercy &#8230; His compassion is never limited.\u00a0It is new every morning&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n(Lamentations 3:21-23, GW)<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">*<b>To move from Lamentations to Praise, choose what you focus your mind on. Think about God&#8217;s love and faithfulness.<\/b>*<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u00a9 Buti Sam KPUTU<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PSALMS and LAMENTATIONS are both Books of the Bible. *The former is largely upbeat in praise while the latter appears depressing.* The difference is in what the authors chose to focus their minds on. *Listen to David, the Prophet of Praise:* &#8220;I will sing of the mercies of the LORD forever; With my mouth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":60468,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5772],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}