{"id":1663,"date":"2018-02-20T01:16:24","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T01:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=1663"},"modified":"2018-02-20T01:16:24","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T01:16:24","slug":"my-plank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2018\/02\/20\/my-plank\/","title":{"rendered":"My Plank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Matthew 7: 3 &#8220;Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother&#8217;s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?<\/p>\n<p>Observation: Lately I\u2019ve been doing this more, looking at the faults of others and ignoring mine.  It\u2019s most likely if I focus on others I feel better about myself and then I don\u2019t have to change, just everyone else.<\/p>\n<p>Application: Realize the only person I can change is me.  I don\u2019t have to focus on my faults, but what God asks of me.  If I can become the man God calls me to be I can be an influence to others and help guide them to Christ, my example.  If I stop looking at the faults of others it will be easier to love them and I will have more time focusing on living my life right.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: Dear Lord give me a kinder heart so I may please you.  May I look at others with love as you do and look at ways to become more like You in my life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Matthew 7: 3 &#8220;Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother&#8217;s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? Observation: Lately I\u2019ve been doing this more, looking at the faults of others and ignoring mine. It\u2019s most likely if I focus on others I feel better &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1664,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-devotional"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1665,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions\/1665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}