{"id":3115,"date":"2021-09-13T10:32:01","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T10:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/?p=3115"},"modified":"2021-09-22T10:33:05","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T10:33:05","slug":"imitation-is-limitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/2021\/09\/13\/imitation-is-limitation\/","title":{"rendered":"IMITATION IS LIMITATION."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1Sa 17:39 And David fastened his sword to his armor, and he tried to walk, for he had not tested them. And David said to Saul, &#8220;I cannot walk with these, for I have not tested them.&#8221; So David took them off.<\/p>\n<p>David versus Goliath battle is a message  of hope and encouragement  to many and especially  when facing big challenges.  It amazing  to note that it was Saul who armed David. However David was unaccustomed to such armor and it would  have been an encumbrance to him.<\/p>\n<p> David  realized that what worked for Saul would not work for him.  Instead of putting on Saul&#8217;s royal armor, he took weapons which were familiar to him. A sling and five smooth stones were enough to accomplish the assignment.<\/p>\n<p>  We are unique  and God is dealing  with us  uniquely.  We are original fulfilling  specific  purposes for our  being.  We should always endeavor to become the best of who God made us to be. Imitation is limitation.<\/p>\n<p>Further readings:<br \/>\nJob 10:8<br \/>\nPsa 139:14<br \/>\n1Cor 12:12<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude4fBlessed  Week\ud83d\ude4f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1Sa 17:39 And David fastened his sword to his armor, and he tried to walk, for he had not tested them. And David said to Saul, &#8220;I cannot walk with these, for I have not tested them.&#8221; So David took them off. David versus Goliath battle is a message of hope and encouragement to many&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3117,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115\/revisions\/3117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}