So let’s try as hard as we can to do what will bring peace. Let’s do whatever will help each other grow stronger in faith. ~ Romans 14:19 (ERV)
Lord it appears that peace is a pretty important aspect of your agenda for the world. You establish it. You call us to work at it. Strong faith depends on it. And I blow it off. It's not that I'm against peace. But it just isn't the kind of priority for me that it is for you. I need a new set of priorities -- priorities that involve peacemaking. Help me to see what that looks like and what it involves. Please give me a fresh vision of the kind of peace that you have been planting in the world and in the lives of desperate people. Amen.Challenging Words
- aspect -- portion, piece, or part of
- blow it off -- idiomatic express for failing to take something or someone seriously, ignoring or even intentionally doing the opposite of what they want
- priority -- something that is considered to be really important, more important than other things