Scripture admonishes that in as much as it is up to us we should live in peace with others (Rom.12:18), but in order to do that we must overcome our natural compulsion to withhold peace in the hope of leveraging situations in our favor. Peace is held hostage when we demand the ransom of having things our way
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Thought for the Day – Taking Peace Hostage
Posted in Thought for the Day / Quotes, tagged compulsion, leverage, live in peace, overcome, peace, situation on March 22, 2026| Leave a Comment »
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Thought for the Day – Living In Peace
Posted in Commentaries, Thought for the Day / Quotes, tagged contentious, idle words, live in peace on May 31, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Repeatedly throughout the New Testament (e.g. 1 Cor. 7:15, 2 Cor. 13:11, 1 Thes. 5:13, 1 Tim. 2:2) the scripture urges us to “live in peace” with one another, with perhaps the strongest of these admonishments coming from the writer of Hebrews (12:14), who says that we are to make “every effort” to live in peace with “everyone”. This is a daunting challenge to forfeit our natural tendency to contentiously defend our position on every issue, and to instead yield to the Spirit of God. If He is not speaking, we ought to do the same. When we choose to express ourselves outside of His leading, we cannot fool ourselves into believing that we’re doing anything more than speaking out of our own limited understanding. In those instances it would do us well to be mindful of what Jesus said about idle (or empty) words (Matt 12:36).
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