{"id":8994,"date":"2026-04-10T13:30:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T13:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=8994"},"modified":"2026-04-10T13:30:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T13:30:35","slug":"blessed-are-those-awake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/blessed-are-those-awake\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessed Are Those Awake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Revelations 16: 15 &#8220;Behold, I come like a thief! Blessed is he who stays awake and keeps his clothes with him, so that he may not go naked and be shamefully exposed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Observation: When I get too involved in this world it\u2019s like falling asleep in Christ.  I get wrapped up in worldly affairs and forget why God put me here.  I become naked to Christ because I don\u2019t have the clothes of righteousness on.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I get caught up in things of this world and I need to focus on Christ and be ready when He returns.  I can\u2019t allow my Lord to find me sleeping when He returns.  Each day I need to be busy doing His will in my life.  There should not be a moment in my day that I would be ashamed of  if He returned at that moment.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: My Lord give me a dose of spiritual no-doze.  Keep me alert to the schemes of the devil.  May my focus be of you each moment of the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Revelations 16: 15 &#8220;Behold, I come like a thief! Blessed is he who stays awake and keeps his clothes with him, so that he may not go naked and be shamefully exposed.&#8221; Observation: When I get too involved in this world it\u2019s like falling asleep in Christ. I get wrapped up in worldly affairs &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8996,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8994","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\/8994","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=8994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8997,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8994\/revisions\/8997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}