{"id":8720,"date":"2026-08-27T08:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T08:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/?p=8720"},"modified":"2026-08-27T09:01:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:01:44","slug":"wanting-your-own-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/?p=8720","title":{"rendered":"Wanting Your Own Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\u201cWhere do you think all these appalling wars and quarrels come from? Do you think they just happen? Think again. They come about because you want your own way, and fight for it deep inside yourselves. You lust for what you don\u2019t have and are willing to kill to get it. You want what isn\u2019t yours and will risk violence to get your hands on it. You wouldn\u2019t think of just asking God for it, would you? And why not? Because you know you\u2019d be asking for what you have no right to. You\u2019re spoiled children, each wanting your own way.\u201d JAMES 4:1-3 (The Message)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhere do you think all these appalling wars and quarrels come from? Do you think they just happen? Think again. They come about because you want your own way, and fight for it deep inside yourselves. You lust for what you don\u2019t have and are willing to kill to get it. You want what isn\u2019t yours and will risk violence to get your hands on it. You wouldn\u2019t think of just asking God for it, would you? And why not?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/?p=8720\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}