{"id":8905,"date":"2026-03-13T13:32:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T13:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=8905"},"modified":"2026-03-13T13:32:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T13:32:40","slug":"knowing-the-good-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/knowing-the-good-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowing the Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: James 4:17 Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn\u2019t do it, sins.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: I think I only sin when I do something bad.  I think of how many times I can do good in a day, but because of laziness or just lack of concern I don\u2019t.  The times I can reach out to somebody in Christ\u2019s name and share the gospel I avoid because of embarrassment. <\/p>\n<p>Application: If I realize every time I don\u2019t do good when I can I sin.  I need to realize it\u2019s Not doing what is right is just as sinful as doing wrong will help me do better.  I will go out and look for ways to do good making my Father proud.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: My Lord open my eyes to see the good you want me to do.  Give me the strength and discipline to serve you and others each day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: James 4:17 Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn\u2019t do it, sins. Observation: I think I only sin when I do something bad. I think of how many times I can do good in a day, but because of laziness or just lack of concern I don\u2019t. The times &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8906,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8905","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\/8905","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=8905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8907,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8905\/revisions\/8907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}