{"id":2152,"date":"2020-05-08T17:57:27","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T17:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=2152"},"modified":"2020-05-08T17:57:27","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T17:57:27","slug":"i-was-blind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2020\/05\/08\/i-was-blind\/","title":{"rendered":"I Was Blind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: John 9:25 He replied, \u201cWhether he is a sinner or not, I don\u2019t know.  One thing I do know I was blind but now I see!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Observation: Most of my life I was blind.  I didn\u2019t see God or all the blessings He was giving me.  I didn\u2019t see the beauty of my surroundings or the people He surrounded me with.  I was blind to his love.  When I received Jesus he opened my eyes to the children, the elderly and homeless around me.  The joy of serving and the beauty of his creation.  He opened my eyes so I may see the man he created in me, someone I never saw before.  <\/p>\n<p>Application: Continue to improve my eyesight by reading and studying His word.  To pray that I may see clearly what He desires for me. <\/p>\n<p>Prayer: Dear Lord continue to open my eyes that I may see clearly the desires of your heart.  Guide this sinner by the hand and direct me on how to do your will in this life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: John 9:25 He replied, \u201cWhether he is a sinner or not, I don\u2019t know. One thing I do know I was blind but now I see!\u201d Observation: Most of my life I was blind. I didn\u2019t see God or all the blessings He was giving me. I didn\u2019t see the beauty of my surroundings &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2152","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\/2152","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=2152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2154,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152\/revisions\/2154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}