{"id":8279,"date":"2025-08-20T13:45:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T13:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=8279"},"modified":"2025-08-20T13:45:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T13:45:05","slug":"humbling-self-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2025\/08\/20\/humbling-self-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Humbling Self"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Mathew 23:12 For whoever exalts himself will be humbled and whoever humbles himself will be exalted<\/p>\n<p>Observation: I feel I\u2019m humble but when I think of the things that happen throughout the day and how I try to get my own way or think that I\u2019m right I realize I\u2019m not.  To be humble is to think of others above yourself and act in a way that honors them and in turn honors God.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to let my feelings go and focus on others needs.  I need to think of myself less and others more.  Need to lay my pride on the alter as a sacrifice to my God.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: My Lord calm my mind and may my focus be on you.  May my thoughts be on the needs of others and may anyone who meets me leave feeling better of themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Mathew 23:12 For whoever exalts himself will be humbled and whoever humbles himself will be exalted Observation: I feel I\u2019m humble but when I think of the things that happen throughout the day and how I try to get my own way or think that I\u2019m right I realize I\u2019m not. To be humble &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8280,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8279","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\/8279","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=8279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8281,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8279\/revisions\/8281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}