{"id":112,"date":"2007-06-28T08:23:05","date_gmt":"2007-06-28T00:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=112"},"modified":"2007-06-28T08:23:05","modified_gmt":"2007-06-28T00:23:05","slug":"no-time-to-stand-up-for-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2007\/06\/28\/no-time-to-stand-up-for-myself\/","title":{"rendered":"No time to stand up for myself&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026a sign of preoccupation with our Lord Jesus Christ &#8211; something I read from today\u2019s (27th Jun) devotion passage from \u2018My Utmost for His Highest\u2019 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.studylight.org\/devos\/utm\/\">http:\/\/www.studylight.org\/devos\/utm\/<\/a>) by Oswald Chambers.<\/p>\n<p>Just the third day of school and I\u2019m feeling great anxiety and distress from the demands of my teaching job. Reading this passage helped me take a step back to see what I have allowed myself in for &#8211; getting upset by difficult situations and people and losing focus on what truly matters. I have been relying on my own wisdom and determination to push on rather than trusting in God\u2019s deliverance and abiding in His peace which \u2018transcends all understanding\u2019. No wonder I feel so spent at the end of the day. Surely, His yoke is easy and His burden light. Knowing Him is liberating. <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-smiley\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_smile.gif\" alt=\":)\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026a sign of preoccupation with our Lord Jesus Christ &#8211; something I read from today\u2019s (27th Jun) devotion passage from \u2018My Utmost for His Highest\u2019 (http:\/\/www.studylight.org\/devos\/utm\/) by Oswald Chambers. Just the third day of school and I\u2019m feeling great anxiety<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2007\/06\/28\/no-time-to-stand-up-for-myself\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  No time to stand up for myself&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[644],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything-else","wpcat-644-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}