Do you prefer peace or war? Do you like having drama in your life? Are you an agent of peace? Do you pursue peace? Do you negotiate peace among warring parties? Where does your peace come from? Is it merely a lack of hatred or violence? Or is your peace far deeper?
Most of us do not like to constantly be arguing and fighting. Or at least we tell ourselves that. But our actions often betray us. We allow the simplest thing that doesn’t go the way we want it to disrupt our peace. We quickly fly off the handle. We have conditioned ourselves to do so.
We don’t have to live that way. There is a better way to live. It is the abundant life Jesus promised us. That abundant life comes with a deep inner peace. So, how do we get that peace? It comes with the wisdom God is willing to give us. We must first seek God’s wisdom. To do that, we must let go of the wisdom of this world. We must listen to God’s Word rather than what the world is blasting at us.
When we gain the wisdom God is willing to give us, we become peaceable, gentle, merciful, and produce good fruit. The hypocrisy of the world no longer has a hold on us. But it takes a full release of the world’s desires and a pursuit of God’s desires. Not only do we receive these things, but we become righteous. Make no mistake about it. It is not a self-righteousness that we see in some, but a righteousness that comes from God.
I pray we all seek the wisdom of God. I pray we release ourselves from the hypocrisy of the world. I pray each one of us experiences the deep inner peace that only comes from God. Seek God’s wisdom. Pry yourself from the world. Find the deep inner peace. Accept the righteousness that only comes from God.
James 3:17-18 But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without a trace of partiality or hypocrisy. And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace for those who make peace.
Marty Pressey 