{"id":603,"date":"2008-09-02T22:25:30","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T02:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/09\/02\/desire-as-tyrant\/"},"modified":"2008-09-02T22:25:30","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T02:25:30","slug":"desire-as-tyrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=603","title":{"rendered":"Desire as Tyrant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the deepest desire we feel within our hearts is for something other than God, a spirit of entitlement develops.\u00c2\u00a0 We see ourselves as needing something we don&#8217;t have and we believe we <em>should <\/em>have.\u00c2\u00a0 Justice is on our side.\u00c2\u00a0 So we think.\u00c2\u00a0 Prayer becomes demand when desire becomes our tyrant.<\/p>\n<p>Soon we&#8217;re caught in the addictive cycle.\u00c2\u00a0 Whatever brings satisfaction relieves pain for the moment, then creates deeper emptiness that, in turn, more rudely clamors for relief.\u00c2\u00a0 We lose our power to choose.\u00c2\u00a0 The will becomes a slave to whatever god makes us feel better.\u00c2\u00a0 We die as persons while Satan chuckles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Larry Crabb, <em>Shattered Dreams, <\/em>p. 86<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the deepest desire we feel within our hearts is for something other than God, a spirit of entitlement develops.\u00c2\u00a0 We see ourselves as needing something we don&#8217;t have and we believe we should have.\u00c2\u00a0 Justice is on our side.\u00c2\u00a0 So we think.\u00c2\u00a0 Prayer becomes demand when desire becomes our tyrant. Soon we&#8217;re caught in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,21,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-healing","category-letting-go"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}