{"id":8708,"date":"2026-01-07T14:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T14:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=8708"},"modified":"2026-01-07T14:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T14:43:12","slug":"the-one-the-lord-commends-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2026\/01\/07\/the-one-the-lord-commends-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The One the Lord Commends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: 2 Corinthians 10: [18] For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: I think about how many times I boast of what I\u2019ve accomplished or what I can do.  Yet there is nothing I can do unless the Lord allows me to do it.  Any ability and gift I have comes from God.  The times I feel the Lord commending me is when I\u2019m doing His work which for me is serving.  When I take off my self-righteousness and put on my servant\u2019s robe that is when I\u2019m in the presence of God.<\/p>\n<p>Application: To put myself in situations that honor God.  To take the focus off myself and be directed towards God\u2019s plan for my life and to take any opportunity to serve. <\/p>\n<p>Prayer: My God may I live this day to be commended by you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: 2 Corinthians 10: [18] For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends. Observation: I think about how many times I boast of what I\u2019ve accomplished or what I can do. Yet there is nothing I can do unless the Lord allows me to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8708","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\/8708","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=8708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8710,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8708\/revisions\/8710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}