{"id":8123,"date":"2025-07-01T13:45:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T13:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=8123"},"modified":"2025-07-01T13:45:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T13:45:22","slug":"how-are-my-good-works-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2025\/07\/01\/how-are-my-good-works-done\/","title":{"rendered":"How Are My Good Works Done?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture James 3:13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by good conduct that his works are done in the meekness of wisdom. <\/p>\n<p>Observation: I believe I need more wisdom.  I\u2019ve done good works, but how many will stand the test if I did them for my Lord or just to get recognition.  I seem to start off right by doing things that honor God, but as people give me credit for doing them, I don\u2019t always point to God, but take the credit myself.  <\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to use the wisdom God has blessed me with and only do good works for His glory and not my recognition.  I need to be humble in all I do so that Jesus gets the glory.  I want others to see the good things that I do and know that I\u2019m doing them for my Lord.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer My God humble your servant and command me what You desire.  That all I do will glorify you and that I will love you with all my heart, mind and soul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture James 3:13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by good conduct that his works are done in the meekness of wisdom. Observation: I believe I need more wisdom. I\u2019ve done good works, but how many will stand the test if I did them for my Lord or just to get &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8124,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8123","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\/8123","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=8123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8125,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8123\/revisions\/8125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}