{"id":9196,"date":"2026-06-11T13:21:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T13:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=9196"},"modified":"2026-06-11T13:21:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T13:21:23","slug":"take-the-lowest-place-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/take-the-lowest-place-2\/","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":9197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9196","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\/9196","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=9196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9198,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9196\/revisions\/9198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}