{"id":353402,"date":"2026-11-02T07:13:21","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T12:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/?p=353402"},"modified":"2026-11-02T10:17:33","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T15:17:33","slug":"crooked-paths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/post\/crooked-paths\/","title":{"rendered":"Crooked Paths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"background-color: #f2f8fc; padding: 2em; border-left: 5px solid #ccc; margin: 1em 0;\"><p>The way of peace they have not known, and there is no justice in their ways; they have made themselves crooked paths; whoever takes that way shall not know peace. Therefore justice is far from us, nor does righteousness overtake us; we look for light, but there is darkness! For brightness, but we walk in blackness! (Isaiah 59:8-9)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThose who call themselves Christians but follow the voice of their hearts run down crooked paths; therefore, they neither understand nor experience justice and do not live in perfect peace.<\/p>\n<p>And all suffer the consequences of the injustices they themselves practice. They yearn for the light for what it brings, but distance themselves from it, preferring to walk in darkness.<\/p>\n<p>They need to enter the Path of Peace: THE KINGDOM OF GOD.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The way of peace they have not known, and there is no justice in their ways; they have made themselves crooked paths; whoever takes that way shall not know peace. Therefore justice is far from us, nor does righteousness overtake us; we look for light, but there is darkness! For brightness, but we walk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":248,"featured_media":353403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[323,6248,377],"tags":[],"site":[],"class_list":["post-353402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-school-of-faith","category-ester-bezerra","category-women"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353404,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353402\/revisions\/353404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353402"},{"taxonomy":"site","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/site?post=353402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}