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Lesson 7 – Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God
Finally, we begin to get busy doing the ministry work! Right?! Well, not exactly. You see, we already have been this whole time. Preparation time is never wasted time and doing things in God’s timing will take, well, time.
Remember, a day to Him is like a thousand years and a thousand years like a day.
And we are in this for the long haul, like an endurance athlete, the Bible encourages us to run our race with patience. (See Hebrews 12:1)
When it comes to dealing with people, we should never be in a rush.
Why?
Because people are fickle and can be easily broken, hurt, swayed, and offended. How do we know this? Because we are people. Just look how long it has taken God to get us to this place!
God loves people.
He so loves people! And only He can change them. He possesses a remarkable, unfathomable amount of longsuffering and patience of which we are going to need heaps of when dealing with people.
Therefore, it is imperative that we learn to view people in the same way God does, and so love them and value them.
This is going to take a lot of preparation time and work behind the scenes, hence what we have been working on with Him up to this point and what He will continue to do in us for our entire lives.
We never outgrow the process of refining and pruning.
But now that we have finally arrived at this stage in our Christian journey, it is vitally important that we try and do as the Bible says and live peaceably with all people as much as possible and try not to offend in word or deed.
This is what James describes as coming into perfection, so be encouraged we aren’t going to be able to accomplish this entirely and the only way to come close is by staying close to Jesus through it all!
If anyone knows what is like to deal with people, it’s Him!
After all, He created us. Plus, while in His earthly ministry, He had to deal with all sorts of people, including His own disciples.
He knows what to do, so we should desire greatly to learn of Him!
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By Joshua Scott ZeitzLesson 7 – Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God
Finally, we begin to get busy doing the ministry work! Right?! Well, not exactly. You see, we already have been this whole time. Preparation time is never wasted time and doing things in God’s timing will take, well, time.
Remember, a day to Him is like a thousand years and a thousand years like a day.
And we are in this for the long haul, like an endurance athlete, the Bible encourages us to run our race with patience. (See Hebrews 12:1)
When it comes to dealing with people, we should never be in a rush.
Why?
Because people are fickle and can be easily broken, hurt, swayed, and offended. How do we know this? Because we are people. Just look how long it has taken God to get us to this place!
God loves people.
He so loves people! And only He can change them. He possesses a remarkable, unfathomable amount of longsuffering and patience of which we are going to need heaps of when dealing with people.
Therefore, it is imperative that we learn to view people in the same way God does, and so love them and value them.
This is going to take a lot of preparation time and work behind the scenes, hence what we have been working on with Him up to this point and what He will continue to do in us for our entire lives.
We never outgrow the process of refining and pruning.
But now that we have finally arrived at this stage in our Christian journey, it is vitally important that we try and do as the Bible says and live peaceably with all people as much as possible and try not to offend in word or deed.
This is what James describes as coming into perfection, so be encouraged we aren’t going to be able to accomplish this entirely and the only way to come close is by staying close to Jesus through it all!
If anyone knows what is like to deal with people, it’s Him!
After all, He created us. Plus, while in His earthly ministry, He had to deal with all sorts of people, including His own disciples.
He knows what to do, so we should desire greatly to learn of Him!