{"id":6590,"date":"2024-03-02T15:49:55","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T15:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=6590"},"modified":"2024-03-02T15:49:55","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T15:49:55","slug":"grasping-for-pleasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2024\/03\/02\/grasping-for-pleasure\/","title":{"rendered":"Grasping for Pleasure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture Ecclesiastes 2:10 Whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them. I did not withhold my heart from any pleasure, For my heart rejoiced in all my labor; And this was my reward from all my labor. <\/p>\n<p>Observation: Most of my life I would get what I thought would bring me joy.  Being depressed I was always searching for something that might bring me happiness.  I would finally purchase whatever it was and it only took a short time before I would realize that the pleasure, I sought did nothing but bring me lower when it didn\u2019t, please me.  <\/p>\n<p>Application: To learn from my past mistakes that the things of this world do not bring joy, but only the things from God.  I need to do more service for my Lord, because my pleasure comes from the things, I do that I know please God.  Being obedient to Him brings me the joy that I have been seeking on these years.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: My Lord I\u2019m here as your servant and my desire is to please you.  Please command me in what you want me to do with this life you have given me.  I love you with all of my heart, mind and soul bring me closer to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture Ecclesiastes 2:10 Whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them. I did not withhold my heart from any pleasure, For my heart rejoiced in all my labor; And this was my reward from all my labor. Observation: Most of my life I would get what I thought would bring me joy. Being &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6591,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6590","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\/6590","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=6590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6592,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6590\/revisions\/6592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}