{"id":3252,"date":"2021-05-12T15:57:56","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T15:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=3252"},"modified":"2021-05-12T15:57:56","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T15:57:56","slug":"i-choose-to-be-a-servant-of-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2021\/05\/12\/i-choose-to-be-a-servant-of-christ\/","title":{"rendered":"I Choose to be a Servant of Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Galatians 1:10 Am I now trying to win the approval of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: I find myself spending too much time trying to please men.  I want the praise and the approval of those put over me along with other people God puts in my past.  I find myself wanting to be recognized instead of Jesus being glorified through me.  As long as that is my mindset I can\u2019t be a true servant of Christ.<\/p>\n<p>Application: Live in a way that glorifies God.  Love those he puts in my life, but let each one see Jesus through my words, thoughts and actions.  Be a servant of Christ and listen for His commands and follow them completely.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: Dear Lord I freely give you this life as a living sacrifice, may it be Holy and pleasing to you.  Humble your servant before you and guide me each day on the path you have chosen for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Galatians 1:10 Am I now trying to win the approval of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ. Observation: I find myself spending too much time trying to please men. I want the praise &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3252","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\/3252","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=3252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3254,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3252\/revisions\/3254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}