“Blessed are the Peacemakers…”
We are not immune to an unjust and unrighteous society. We
must endure the effects of a broken humanity that is consumed by a narcissistic
personality with an insatiable appetite for more. Endurance comes from the
field of battle and from the furnace of human connectedness, not from the seat
of the cynic.
Our battle and the friction that we encounter is not
necessarily with people, but the result of confrontations between principles,
ideologies, and perceptions fought within the spirit of mankind.
We criticize because we do not understand; we do not
understand because we listen to the wrong voice. We listen to the voice of
anger, bitterness, hurt and pain. We listen searching for a reason to find
fault and to place blame, rather than to bring healing and understanding. We
listen to replace responsibility with abdication and dereliction of our human
duty.
Our greatest problem is a lack of trust in the ultimate
reality of a sovereign God. This is a trust that opens and closes doors of
opportunity. It is a trust that brings conquered territory at the expense of
obedience in the present reality.
“…for they shall be called sons of God.”
Blessings,
Elton O. Brooke, EdD
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