{"id":8779,"date":"2026-01-30T15:04:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T15:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=8779"},"modified":"2026-01-30T15:04:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T15:04:28","slug":"being-wise-towards-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2026\/01\/30\/being-wise-towards-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Wise Towards Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Colossians 4: [5] Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: I\u2019m so judgmental of others I forget I\u2019m suppose to be an ambassador for Christ and not a self appointed judge.  I don\u2019t see others as an opportunity to share the gospel, which I should be doing.  My one and only purpose is to bring others to Christ using the gifts and talents God has given me.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to start each day with the purpose to seek out people to talk to.  I don\u2019t need to start out with the gospel, but be a person that someone would be willing to listen to.  If I get that opportunity to speak, I need to make the most of it.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: My Lord put someone in my path today that I may tell them of You.  May my words come from the Holy Spirit and draw that person close to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Colossians 4: [5] Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity. Observation: I\u2019m so judgmental of others I forget I\u2019m suppose to be an ambassador for Christ and not a self appointed judge. I don\u2019t see others as an opportunity to share the gospel, which I should &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8780,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8779","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\/8779","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=8779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8781,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8779\/revisions\/8781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}