Healing, blessing, or stored up ammunition?

 

Strive for peace

  with everyone....

        Hebrews 12. 14

(The perfect gift

     for the holidays.

And sometimes

            the hardest.

But peace

   doesn't just happen.

In the Greek,

strive means to pursue,

to run swiftly, press on,

whatever it takes,

to run after, to follow after

   --not a passive verb at all.

Everyone means everyone,

    no exclusions

as much as it is up to us.

What does that take

    in this situation,

    in this relationship,

        as a believer?

It doesn't just happen.

What are we bringing

       to the table?

Healing, blessing,

or stored-up ammunition?)

O LORD,

Forgive us for bad attitudes

and hearts that

  are not aligned with Yours.

Saturate us with Your peace

  that we would not just

  have the band-width

         to bring peace here,

but strive with

        love and intention.

Show us Your way

  to change the conversation

with unexpected grace.