{"id":7415,"date":"2024-11-17T14:50:57","date_gmt":"2024-11-17T14:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=7415"},"modified":"2024-11-17T14:50:57","modified_gmt":"2024-11-17T14:50:57","slug":"the-worthless-shepherd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2024\/11\/17\/the-worthless-shepherd\/","title":{"rendered":"The Worthless Shepherd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture Zechariah 11:17 \u201cWoe to the worthless shepherd,<br \/>\nWho leaves the flock!<br \/>\nA sword shall be against his arm<br \/>\nAnd against his right eye;<br \/>\nHis arm shall completely wither,<br \/>\nAnd his right eye shall be totally blinded.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Observation: We have plenty of worthless shepherds as leaders today.  They take bribes and hurt the people they are supposed to be helping.  The day will come when they will reap what they have sowed.  <\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to be focused on God and His calling on my life and not worry about things that I can\u2019t change.  God has given me a purpose and my duty is to fulfill that purpose to the best of my ability and trust God to complete it as He desires.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer My Lord I\u2019m your bond servant and will do whatever You call me to do.  Open my eyes to You and that I will continue to stay in your word and pray for those You put in my path.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture Zechariah 11:17 \u201cWoe to the worthless shepherd, Who leaves the flock! A sword shall be against his arm And against his right eye; His arm shall completely wither, And his right eye shall be totally blinded.\u201d Observation: We have plenty of worthless shepherds as leaders today. They take bribes and hurt the people they &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7416,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7415","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\/7415","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=7415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7417,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7415\/revisions\/7417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}