{"id":8951,"date":"2026-03-27T13:32:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=8951"},"modified":"2026-03-27T13:32:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:32:52","slug":"why-we-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/why-we-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: 1 John 4:19 We love because He first loved us.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: When I was saved one thing surprised me.  I would look at children, seniors and the homeless in a different way.  Where I used to ignore them or just never noticed, I started to see them.  I got joy watching children playing and would always stop to talk to them.  I left gift cards for the homeless and would stop to give them money and I would lead some of the outreaches at senior and nursing homes.  God put that love in my heart that I never had before.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to love everyone as God commanded me, not because I have to but because God wants me to.  I can fight what God is putting on my heart, but I need to surrender, because of the love He shows me.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: My Lord, I thank you for your mercy, grace and love.  May my love show through to you as I love others this day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: 1 John 4:19 We love because He first loved us. Observation: When I was saved one thing surprised me. I would look at children, seniors and the homeless in a different way. Where I used to ignore them or just never noticed, I started to see them. I got joy watching children playing and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8951","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\/8951","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=8951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8953,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8951\/revisions\/8953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}