Let us be focused on peace and mutual learning
We must pursue and share peace if we are going to have it ourselves. We must edify, and be open to being edified, if mutual edification is going to happen. In other words, we live with other people in God's family. He wants us to be responsible for making relationships work in our spiritual family. He reminds us it will require strenuous effort.
Love means sacrifice, effort, and concern for others.
Let us ask God to forgive us for our impatience and selfishness. Ask God to help us to defeat the bad attitude of competitiveness that we often display in arguments and disagreements with others in our family. Let us ask God to energize us by His Spirit to see areas where we can be a blessing and an encouragement to others.
Romans 14:19
Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification.
(0212) 16 July 2007