Scripture: Titus 2: [14] who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good. <\/p>\n
Observation: My Lord gave of himself to save and purify me and He calls me His own. I should want to do anything that pleases my Lord and no matter what it costs me. I should be eager to do good for Jesus, but how eager am I. It seems my own needs and desires come before my Lord\u2019s instead of my desires being His. I should want what He wants, it should be my nature, but it isn\u2019t. I spent so much of my life trying to please others, why don\u2019t I spend that time and more trying to please my Lord?<\/p>\n
Application: Before I do anything I should ask myself if this is serving or pleasing to God. I am called to be a person of God and to be eager, not reluctant, but wanting to do things that are good and pleasing. Jesus saved me to be His and to serve others in a way to direct them to God the Father. This should be more than a duty but the thing that stimulates and excites me more than anything else.<\/p>\n
Prayer: Dear Lord give me a heart for you. Open my eyes and stir my heart to desire to serve you and to draw others near. Give me a fire in my spirit that will please you and that I won\u2019t make any more excuses in why I don\u2019t serve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Scripture: Titus 2: [14] who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good. Observation: My Lord gave of himself to save and purify me and He calls me His own. I should want to do …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4236,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4235","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\/4235","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=4235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4237,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235\/revisions\/4237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}