{"id":8954,"date":"2026-03-28T13:36:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T13:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=8954"},"modified":"2026-03-28T13:36:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T13:36:33","slug":"love-god-obey-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/28\/love-god-obey-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Love God, Obey Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: 1 John 5:3 This is love for God: to obey his commands.  And his commands are not burdensome.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: If I truly love God I will want to please Him and do it with a joyful heart.  God loves me and the commands He gives me is for my own good, they are not a burden, but an opportunity to please Him.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to be aware of all God\u2019s commands and memorize and meditate on them.  Start each day aware of what God wants and to live in a way to honor and please Him.  To obey God is my purpose in life and the more I do, the closer I will come to Him.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: My Lord put your Word into my heart and open my eyes to all you want from me.  May I please you this day and make you proud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: 1 John 5:3 This is love for God: to obey his commands. And his commands are not burdensome. Observation: If I truly love God I will want to please Him and do it with a joyful heart. God loves me and the commands He gives me is for my own good, they are not &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8954","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\/8954","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=8954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8956,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8954\/revisions\/8956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}