{"id":6750,"date":"2024-04-21T14:06:52","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T14:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=6750"},"modified":"2024-04-21T14:06:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T14:06:52","slug":"the-work-of-the-righteous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2024\/04\/21\/the-work-of-the-righteous\/","title":{"rendered":"The Work of the Righteous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture Isaiah 32:17 The work of righteousness will be peace,<br \/>\nAnd the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance forever. <\/p>\n<p>Observation: I think I\u2019m righteous, but that\u2019s not the truth.  My focus is not on peace but revenge and anger.  I see the bad news and I want those that are causing it to pay for it.  I have no control of what happens, only what I do.  <\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to be more aware of my thoughts and actions and to calm down and ask God for guidance.  If I can live my life in righteousness and live in peace maybe others will see it and that will encourage them, but no matter what I will be honoring to my Lord.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer My Lord help me live a life that pleases You.  I\u2019m here as your ambassador show me how to do my job to the best of my abilities and gifts You have blessed me with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture Isaiah 32:17 The work of righteousness will be peace, And the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance forever. Observation: I think I\u2019m righteous, but that\u2019s not the truth. My focus is not on peace but revenge and anger. I see the bad news and I want those that are causing it to pay for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6751,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6750","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\/6750","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=6750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6752,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6750\/revisions\/6752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}