{"id":8944,"date":"2026-03-25T13:21:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T13:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=8944"},"modified":"2026-03-25T13:21:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T13:21:04","slug":"worlds-desire-pass-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/worlds-desire-pass-away\/","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s Desire Pass Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: 1 John 2: [17] The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: It reminds me how much of my time is spent on the world\u2019s desire and how much on God\u2019s will.  Most of my time is used up in worldly things.  Work, house, chores, finances, etc.  My leftover time is then focused on God instead of the other way around.  <\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to make God\u2019s will top priority at all times.  The way I love, work, interact with others, all things need to honor God.  My focus above all is what does God want of me?  That should be my first priority. <\/p>\n<p>Prayer: My Lord even as I write this my mind is wondering about other things.  Help me be focused on you first, may my heart be on you and not this world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: 1 John 2: [17] The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever. Observation: It reminds me how much of my time is spent on the world\u2019s desire and how much on God\u2019s will. Most of my time is used up in worldly things. Work, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8945,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8944","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\/8944","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=8944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8946,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8944\/revisions\/8946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}