{"id":900,"date":"2015-11-25T01:31:54","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T01:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=900"},"modified":"2015-11-26T01:32:18","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T01:32:18","slug":"take-the-lowest-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2015\/11\/25\/take-the-lowest-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Take the Lowest Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Luke 14: [10] But when you are invited, take the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he will say to you, `Friend, move up to a better place.&#8217; Then you will be honored in the presence of all your fellow guests.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: So many times I want to be recognized and have the seat of honor.  I want to speak instead of listen, I want people to say good things about me more than I want to say good things to others.  I try to be humble but it doesn\u2019t come naturally.  I shouldn\u2019t want to take the lowest seat in hopes to be brought up, but to glorify God.<\/p>\n<p>Application: Start focusing more on God than myself.  Stop trying to get the attention of others, but think how should I act to honor God.  Stop trying to be put first and put God First.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: Dear Lord may I honor you by putting others before me, that I will not be concerned by being in the light of this world, but be the light to guide others to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Luke 14: [10] But when you are invited, take the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he will say to you, `Friend, move up to a better place.&#8217; Then you will be honored in the presence of all your fellow guests. Observation: So many times I want to be recognized and have &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":901,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-900","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\/900","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=900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":903,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions\/903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}