{"id":8673,"date":"2025-12-22T14:38:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T14:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=8673"},"modified":"2025-12-22T14:38:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T14:38:00","slug":"bad-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2025\/12\/22\/bad-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15: 33 Do not be misled: &#8220;Bad company corrupts good character.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Observation: It\u2019s so easy in this world to fall under peer pressure or try to impress someone else.  The people you surround yourself with will either corrupt you or help keep you on the right path.  I\u2019ve seen this in my life and especially the life of my son.  He surrounded himself at one time with gang members and that is what he became.  The people at my work are nice but not Christians.  I can get into a conversation that can compromise my thoughts and speech if I\u2019m not careful.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I can\u2019t avoid the world and I\u2019m not supposed to.  But I can make a better effort to spend more time around my brothers and sisters in Christ to help strengthen me and build up my character.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: My Lord may I use my time more wisely meeting with my Christian friends in Bible study, dinner and fellowship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15: 33 Do not be misled: &#8220;Bad company corrupts good character.&#8221; Observation: It\u2019s so easy in this world to fall under peer pressure or try to impress someone else. The people you surround yourself with will either corrupt you or help keep you on the right path. I\u2019ve seen this in my &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8674,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8673","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\/8673","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=8673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8675,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8673\/revisions\/8675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}