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Peace Keeping vs Peace Making 📖

It's easy to "keep the peace." People like peace keepers, cause they don't stir the pot. They do as they're told, they don't engage in confrontation & they'll do whatever needs to be done to make sure those around them stay happy. Unfortunately, what this translates to is crippling internal anxiety, a life riddled with fear, inauthentic relationships & limited personal growth. As Christian's, we aren't permitted to live as peace keepers in our new nature as children of God.

Matthew 5:9 says "Blessed are the PEACE MAKERS, for THEY will be called SOMS of God."

Peace making takes humility, intentionality, a burden for authentic relationship & a desire to lead others OUT of their brokenness (confrontation) and INTO the arms of a loving God. For example, Matthew 5:23 says, "If you are offering your gift at the alter and remember that your brother has something against you... first, GO AND BE RECONCILED to them, then come offer your gift."

As Ambassadors of Christ on this earth, we have to reflect the way he also engaged in Peace Making on this earth. He sat with winners, but he never condoned their sin. He affirmed their value, without affirming their life choices, that were leading them toward hell.

This is our charge as Peace Makers on the earth:

“So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”
‭‭2 Corinthians‬ ‭5:16-21‬ ‭

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