Since we moved to paradise, North Idaho, I have noticed that we all complain so much that I think it has become second nature. In the summer it rarely goes above 90 degrees here, yet everyone complains about the heat. In 3 years in this small town I haven’t seen a traffic jam, but people complain about the traffic, when they have to wait a minute or two to make a left turn, including me.
An interesting thing I learned, in Hebrew the word peace, shalom, is often a verb, an action word. Maybe we don’t sit around praying for peace, maybe we go out and act in ways that promote it.
I read a book recently that really hit me, “Unoffendable”. A really short version of the theme of this book might be, “show your light by not getting offended”.
But I think we should also do our best not to go out and be offensive.
In our youth we used to listen to a radio show with psychiatrist Dr Laura. People would call about their circumstances and they would be certain that confronting someone close to them was the right thing to do, and quite often Dr Laura’s response would be, something to the effect, “to what end?” “What good can possibly come of it? or, will it more than likely cause more heart ache? then why bring it up?”
I guess the opposite of making peace is sowing misery, dissension, drama or maybe just moaning about our circumstances
This preaching video our son turned us on to really got me thinking more about this.
Peacemakers are called son’s of God
Light exposes darkness and we are called to let our light so shine.
The enemy’s whole plan is to keep you self-conscious, self-focused, to hinder the light.
Oh, – get you to church, serve in a ministry, pay your tithes faithfully
But – don’t Shine
You can do all those things but it won’t change the world, but when you shine people see – when you shine people see!
When you shine – Darkness is exposed!
It’s not about your circumstances going cookie-cutter perfect. It’s not about your ducks in a row.
It’s about, – do you shine when things are going wrong?, do you shine when in trial?, do you shine in injustice?
Are you a Peacemaker? cause Peacemakers are son’s of God!
Not those who confess sonship, but those who make peace!
Dan Mohler ✝️ Don’t let life speak louder than truth
To watch the entire speech on youtube – LINK
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