Pursue Peace!


I write as God gives it to me.  To the naked eye there is no rhyme or reason to it all.  Look with your spiritual eye.  My plan is to write about MS, experiencing it personally along with some of the daily challenges.  I guess that will come into play occasionally but today; He gave me this:

I was listening to a pastor this morning and he said something very powerful.  He said in Ephesians 4:30 where God says, “Do Not Grieve the Spirit”.  We always refer that to something super natural, but when we miss treat our family, we are grieving the Holy Spirit.  We are grieving Him when we don’t speak to one another because the power of unity in the Holy Spirit cannot/will not flow unless we get rid of all the hypocrisy.  “He answered and said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written: ‘This people honors Me with their lips, But their heart is far from Me. And in vain they worship Me” Mark 7:6-7

Our relationship with each other says a lot about the relationship that we have with Jesus Christ.  If we don’t speak, talk to, take direction from, etc., chances are we are not communing with God either.  Those that preach, if you cannot reconcile with your family how can you stand and preach the gospel of reconciliation?

God also brought to my attention verses 31, 32.  There again, it seems like God came off His throne & stood in my room & said, Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.


Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord:

Hebrews 12:14


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