Peace Makers

Matthew 5:9 (NLT) - God blesses those who work for peace, for they will be called children of God.

Peace is a soothing feeling and mindset, when all is quiet, calm, tranquil, in rhythm, in sync and united. It lacks disturbance or pressure or noise. It can seem boring at times.

There is the inner peace within yourself and the outer peace. The environment most often influences the inner peace, like words from others, behaviours that cause chaos, bitterness, anger, in forgiveness, rivalry and many.

Today I want to bring to light how the inner peace influences what happens outside you, to do this, I will focus on offence.

When you are offended by someone, it forms a wound which becomes fertile ground for the seeds of anger, bitterness, and strife.

To deal with that you need to ask questions in your mind to get to the root of the problem. Theses are some of the questions I ask myself:

• Why did I react this way?

• What was offensive about their words or behaviour?

• Has someone said or done this to me before?

• Do I have any childhood scars that makes me react this way?

• What's going on in this person's mind?

• Why is the person behaving this way?

• What's going on in their lives?

• How are they translating my words and actions?

• What's his or her background?

• Do I remind the person of a past hurt?

• What's disturbing this person's peace that he or she has to scream at me?

• What's the actual problem here?

You can create your own questions depending on the scenario, it helps release the knot but it may not take it away.

Then you party to God to help you forgive and to give you wisdom on how to handle the situation followed by worship and praise of God's goodness, some battles only God can fix.

I advice you to give yourself time to talk to the Holy Spirit, tell Him what annoyed you, be honest, say your grievances bring it to light but be sober, humble and not driven by your emotions.

Remember we are all children of God, God loves you and loves the other person too, we are all not perfect but He still loves us, remember He is your Father. No parent would want there to be disunity and strife between their children, it will make them sad.

Sometimes it's not about right or wrong. It's more about removing the poison that creeps into your heart because of offence. It destroys marriages, friendships and partnerships.

Even if the person doesn't acknowledge their wrong doing, still bless them, pray for them and leave them in God's hands. Think positive memories about them, for what you feed on expands.

Dear Lord, help us to be peacemakers, we your children want to be united as the body of Christ. Heal our hurting hearts, wipe the tears that refuse to stop, let your wind cool our hearts and mend replace our worn out clothes. Thank you Father, in Jesus Name Amen.

Praise the Lord, don't let the enemy steal your joy.