{"id":8754,"date":"2026-01-22T14:25:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T14:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=8754"},"modified":"2026-01-22T14:25:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T14:25:47","slug":"serving-my-lord-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2026\/01\/22\/serving-my-lord-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Serving My Lord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Ephesians 6: [7] Serve wholeheartedly, as if you were serving the Lord, not men,<\/p>\n<p>Observation: I work halfheartedly at best.  I cheat my employer of time and effort.  Even when I serve at church sometimes it is out of pride or recognition.  I look for praise from men but not praise from God.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to start doing everything for the glory of God.  I only have a short time to honor God in this world and I need to get busy.  When I go to work tomorrow, I need to do a job that  would glorify God.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: My Lord take this pride and laziness away and turn my focus on pleasing you.  May I glorify you each day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Ephesians 6: [7] Serve wholeheartedly, as if you were serving the Lord, not men, Observation: I work halfheartedly at best. I cheat my employer of time and effort. Even when I serve at church sometimes it is out of pride or recognition. I look for praise from men but not praise from God. Application: &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8755,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8754","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\/8754","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=8754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8756,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8754\/revisions\/8756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}