{"id":61,"date":"2016-08-09T18:36:39","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wordpress\/?p=61"},"modified":"2017-01-10T15:15:07","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T15:15:07","slug":"x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/2016\/08\/09\/x\/","title":{"rendered":"An Imitated Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The problem is that many of us have tried to live by our own imitated design (independently from Christ) and have discovered that we always come up short.\u00a0 Because of this\u00a0many of us\u00a0struggle with depression, anxiety, addictions, stress, loneliness, a lack of purpose or direction, relational conflict, and a host of other defeating issues.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve always heard that Christ has won the battle but <span class=\"Emphasis\"><strong>we wonder why we still feel defeated\u00a0and trapped<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"bodystyle\">Have you ever noticed how hard it is to live the Christian life? Many of us find ourselves having done all the &#8220;right&#8221; things throughout our life but only end up frustrated saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"bodystyle\">&#8220;If THAT&#8217;s all there is to THIS life, then I want to quit!&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"bodystyle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/sad-girl-1382940_19202-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-244\" src=\"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/sad-girl-1382940_19202-4.jpg\" alt=\"sad-girl-1382940_1920(2)\" width=\"800\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/sad-girl-1382940_19202-4.jpg 800w, https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/sad-girl-1382940_19202-4-300x126.jpg 300w, https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/sad-girl-1382940_19202-4-768x324.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"bodystyle\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem is that many of us have tried to live by our own imitated design (independently from Christ) and have discovered that we always come up short.\u00a0 Because of this\u00a0many of us\u00a0struggle with depression, anxiety, addictions, stress, loneliness, a lack of purpose or direction, relational conflict, and a host of other defeating issues.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve always heard that Christ has won the battle but we wonder why we still feel defeated\u00a0and trapped.\u00a0 Have you ever noticed how hard it is to live the Christian life? Many of us find ourselves having done all the &#8220;right&#8221; things throughout our life but only end up frustrated saying: &#8220;If THAT&#8217;s all there is to THIS life, then I want to quit!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":567,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}