{"id":8957,"date":"2026-03-29T13:42:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T13:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=8957"},"modified":"2026-03-29T13:42:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T13:42:30","slug":"watch-out-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/29\/watch-out-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: 2 John [8] Watch out that you do not lose what you have worked for, but that you may be rewarded fully.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: I become complacent and realize I focus on things of this world more than on what God wants of me.  When I first became a Christian, I couldn\u2019t do enough, yet I wasn\u2019t sure all the time what to do.  Now my knowledge is greater in what I should do, but my laziness at times prevents me from doing it.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to get back that zeal for the Lord\u2019s work.  Making it my top priority to please God.  I need to have a stronger drive in doing the things for the Lord then I ever had before.  When I get lazy and pass an opportunity to serve, I need to say to myself, \u201cWatch Out!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: My Lord may the work I have done so far be just the early beginning of all the things I will accomplish for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: 2 John [8] Watch out that you do not lose what you have worked for, but that you may be rewarded fully. Observation: I become complacent and realize I focus on things of this world more than on what God wants of me. When I first became a Christian, I couldn\u2019t do enough, yet &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8958,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8957","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\/8957","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=8957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8959,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8957\/revisions\/8959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}