{"id":9177,"date":"2026-06-05T13:20:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T13:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=9177"},"modified":"2026-06-05T13:20:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T13:20:32","slug":"seeing-the-light-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/seeing-the-light-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing the Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Luke 8: 16 &#8220;No one lights a lamp and hides it in a jar or puts it under a bed. Instead, he puts it on a stand, so that those who come in can see the light.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: Where is my light most of the time?  Do I hide it at work when I get upset or anxious?  Do I hide it at home when I get angry or selfish?  At church when I am prideful or gossip?  When do I let my light shine?<\/p>\n<p>Application: I am called to be a light to this world, to point others to Jesus.  In every situation I should act accordingly to the way that would glorify God.  I should always be loving, controlled, compassionate so that others may see the light of Christ in me.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer:  My Lord turn up my light that others will see.  That after I meet someone they would know I belong to you.  May I not hide my light in any situation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Luke 8: 16 &#8220;No one lights a lamp and hides it in a jar or puts it under a bed. Instead, he puts it on a stand, so that those who come in can see the light. Observation: Where is my light most of the time? Do I hide it at work when I &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9178,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9177","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\/9177","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=9177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9179,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9177\/revisions\/9179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}