Peace and Goodwill

"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men." (Lk 2:14)

DID GOD COME TO EARTH to bring peace and goodwill, only for it to dissolve into chaos? Or is it possible His will is right on track and our viewpoint is wrong?

We aren't seeing it from God’s perspective. We've shortened His hand and made Him unable to save. We speak disaster with our mouths when God has called on us to give blessing. We don't understand blessing, or we would do it all the time.

Blessing isn't given because you deserve it. It is given because you need it.

I had an opportunity to act like the world, to let loose and give someone a piece of my mind. I opted for blessing. Give her wisdom and peace of mind, a heart of service. I will never speak with that one again, most likely, but I have not set myself against her and that matters because I don't know if she knows Jesus or what the enemy is trying to steal from her and destroy.

“Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.” (Psalms 119:165)

We are the reason people seek Him. We are the reason people turn away. The Spirit said to me that there are those who serve Him who will never darken a church building doorway. They will not enter for reasons that most often include how we have behaved.

We must be bigger than offense, neither the cause of it nor one who holds onto it. We must also change our thought pattern from Apocalypse to Heaven. Man has drilled the end of the world into us in mostly incorrect doctrine and beliefs when God is looking for harvest, for souls who Jesus desires to love. He does love but they don't see Him in you and me.

“Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.” (John 4:35)

Our job today, in this hour, is to be the body of Christ on the earth and to show people the compassion of our loving Father. We are to focus on today and leave tomorrow in His hands (Matthew 6:34). Fear should be a siren which wakes us up to our wrong thinking. We should feel it and say the truth of Scripture instead. We cannot go by our eyes, what things look like, or our ears, what we have heard, but we stand on God's promises and then live our life dedicated to His service.

That's what Jesus said. His disciples are called to wash other people's feet. To take in the man beaten and left to die on the road and care for his wounds, even if it requires our finances.

Stop daydreaming of the return of Christ while not knowing Christ in your daily living, and not showing Him to those around you, at your job, at the donut shop, at the Saturday night football game. Set down Armageddon to walk in shalom, and choose to believe that God's ending will be as VERY GOOD as His Genesis was. He is mercy now because of Jesus, His only vengeance the devil's condemnation. If you don't see this and don't agree with it, then you must seek Him for it and determine to walk in love and peace in spite of how you feel.

With those you know and those you don’t, even if they say the wrong thing.

“And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.” (Genesis 1:31)

“Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand … That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.” (Deuteronomy 11:18, 21)

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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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