{"id":18443,"date":"2023-07-30T05:13:30","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T10:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=18443"},"modified":"2023-07-30T05:13:33","modified_gmt":"2023-07-30T10:13:33","slug":"my-way-or-gods-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=18443","title":{"rendered":"My Way or God’s Way"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Thursday night, at my Everleigh Lakeline community, a most talented and delightful singer, Rickey Davis, gave us a \u201cFrank Sinatra\u201d concert that was second to none! He is known as a Frank Sinatra Tribute Artist, and he took us back to those classic times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Someone came up to me afterwards and said, \u201cYou sang right along with him. I watched you. You knew the words to every one of his songs!\u201d Oh, yes, I did. It was a special night of taking us back to the \u201coldies but goodies\u201d!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rickey\u2019s last Sinatra song was \u201cI Did It My Way\u201d. It packed a punch for me, because here I am writing a blog about the idea of our need to do things our way. The song was about a man fondly looking back on a life lived on his own terms. But, really, is that the way we want to live?<\/p>\n\n\n

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Okay, I\u2019ll admit that this new relationship that I am enjoying tremendously, has certainly shifted my \u201cdoing it my way\u201d mentality. As a widow for over 13 years now, I\u2019ve lived life my way, under my terms, quite well. Suddenly, MY WAY is subjected to compromise, giving in, and being pleasing and yielding to someone else\u2019s way!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am convinced that God knows what\u2019s best for us even though it can really upset our \u201cdoing-it-my-way\u201d apple cart! I really don\u2019t want to be that \u201cmy way or the highway\u201d kind of gal. I don\u2019t want to be known as the one who is a \u201cknow it all\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I know it is a part of being human to want to have our way. We all have a touch of the need to be right. We all have areas where we believe that we know better than others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even, as adults, \u201cmine\u201d is a part of our DNA. My plans. My ideas. My way. Not anything against Frank, but that wasn\u2019t a love song about a girl, a boy or even a city \u2014 it was about me, me, me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is a phrase used today: \u201cIf it feels good do it\u201d. There is even a magazine called SELF. Romans 12:10 calls us to \u201cBe kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honor preferring one another.\u201d And, in Philippians 2:3 \u201cLet nothing be done through strife or vainglory, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I know the consequences and the blessings that can come from how I conduct myself as a Child of God. I\u2019ve learned that my mind, mouth, mood, and attitude are all intricately connected. When they run amuck, it\u2019s because \u201cIt\u2019s all about me!\u201d Mine. My feelings. My way. And when I go there, my thoughts turn into words that I speak, and the two of them together turn into bad moods and attitudes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It isn\u2019t about ME, about MINE. It is about HE. May God help us to humble our hearts AND our minds to become more like Him. Who wants to be a know-it-all, when there\u2019s only one KNOW-IT-ALL? He is Father God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of singing Frank\u2019s \u201cI DID IT MY WAY\u201d, why not be singing\u2026. \u201cI did it God\u2019s way!\u201d And when we do it God\u2019s way\u2026..in humility and love\u2026..it WILL BE His way\u2026.and the BEST WAY!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2026be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for \u2018God resists the proud, but gives grace to the HUMBLE.\u201d 1 Peter 5:5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thursday night, at my Everleigh Lakeline community, a most talented and delightful singer, Rickey Davis, gave us a \u201cFrank Sinatra\u201d concert that was second to none! He is known as a Frank Sinatra Tribute Artist, and he took us back to those classic times. Someone came up to me afterwards and said, \u201cYou sang right…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27468,27469,27467],"tags":[27466,1210,1769,12278,20270,2002,27463,16779,530,2005,40,2008,27464,27465,27462,15295,578,3921],"class_list":["post-18443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-frank-sinatra","category-gods-way","category-i-did-it-my-way","tag-be-submissive","tag-blog","tag-christian","tag-compromise","tag-everleigh","tag-frank-sinatra","tag-giving-in","tag-gods-way-2","tag-humility","tag-i-did-it-my-way","tag-inspiration","tag-my-way","tag-my-way-or-the-highway","tag-prefer-one-another","tag-rickey-davis","tag-romans-1210","tag-widow","tag-yielding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18450,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18443\/revisions\/18450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}