{"id":2479,"date":"2020-08-28T15:04:56","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T15:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=2479"},"modified":"2020-08-28T15:04:56","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T15:04:56","slug":"working-for-the-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2020\/08\/28\/working-for-the-lord\/","title":{"rendered":"Working for the Lord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Colossians 3:[23] Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men,<\/p>\n<p>Observation: I am going through some hardships at work and really don\u2019t like my job and would really want to just quit.  I focus on how bad my future would be with this company and how I dislike the type of work I\u2019m doing.  I\u2019m so focused on the negative part of my job that I\u2019m not focused on my job I do for Christ.  God has put me here and as given me the abilities to do a good job.<\/p>\n<p>Application: Stop focusing on how I dislike my job and put my attention on my Lord.  Do a job that will glorify Him each day so my earthly boss will see the person that my heavenly boss sees.  At the end of each day glorify God with the work I accomplished and let him lead me to either a different job or a renewed spirit for this one.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: Dear Lord I\u2019m your workmanship and you deserve the best I can do.  May the end of each day give you pleasure by your creation, that the job is done to please you and not others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Colossians 3:[23] Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, Observation: I am going through some hardships at work and really don\u2019t like my job and would really want to just quit. I focus on how bad my future would be with this company &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2480,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2479","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\/2479","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=2479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2481,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479\/revisions\/2481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}