{"id":13027,"date":"2026-06-28T19:49:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T19:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/?page_id=13027"},"modified":"2026-06-28T19:57:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T19:57:23","slug":"peters-thursday-july-2-2026","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/peters-thursday-july-2-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Peters &#8211; Thursday, July 2, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay &#8211; <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Ecclesiastes 5:5<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy partner and I have been talking to all the residents on this block to see if anyone may have seen or heard anything involving the recent home invasion,&#8221; the detective advised.\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cI did!\u201d the twelve-year-old boy excitedly announced.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cI clearly remember hearing about a month ago, the people next door yelling they\u2019ll need to start robbing Peter again to pay Paul.\u00a0 Hey, I think you guys need to check for other robberies with a Peter living in the home.\u00a0 \u00a0I can\u2019t wait to tell the guys at school that I may be living next door to serial thieves!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, the opening parody prompted a smile about the far-reaching imaginations of a preteen by misinterpreting a famous idiom. This humorous irony came to mind as I recognized the future consequences of pursuing a certain item and how it would require &#8220;Robbing Peter to Pay Paul.&#8221; Doing so would not only jeopardize my credit but also return me to the financial insecurity that God had delivered me from.<\/p>\n<p>While shuffling debts may seem like a harmless temporary solution for getting something desired, it\u2019s very misleading because it ultimately robs not only Peters of their legal claim, but also the peace that comes from being a good steward of what\u2019s been given.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay &#8211; Ecclesiastes 5:5 \u201cMy partner and I have been talking to all the residents on this block to see if anyone may have seen or heard anything involving the recent home invasion,&#8221; the detective advised.\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cI did!\u201d the twelve-year-old &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/peters-thursday-july-2-2026\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Peters &#8211; Thursday, July 2, 2026&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13027","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13027"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13031,"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13027\/revisions\/13031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}