Focus: James 3:18 - KJV
18. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
James 3:13-18
Apostle Paul did so much work to guide every follower of Christ to pursue love and righteousness in all things. He ought to be commended for surrendering himself to the use of the Holy Spirit for this purpose. By his instruction, it will appear that most unrighteous deeds are borne out of bitter envying and strife, which culminates into lying against the truth. When they do so lie, they assume it is that they are wise. Meanwhile, such inverted wisdom is never of God but of the devil. Due to their bitter envying, strife and lie, a person who is innocent is maltreated by their bringing confusion to the people they succeed in deceiving to move in judgment wrongly against the innocent. However, those who have godly wisdom pursue peace with all men and holiness, thereby sowing the seed of righteousness.
Nabal’s wife, Abigail, who later became David’s wife, knew how to pursue peace. Once she realized trouble was on the way of her household, she went to David and his team waving an olive branch and her righteousness saved her and the family in that immediate moment. But Ahab, even though a whole king he was, had bitter envying of the poor Naboth because of his inherited vineyard. When Ahab failed to get the vineyard peaceably, his wife concocted a lie “in wisdom”, to wrest the inheritance from Naboth. Very soon, the king became a murderer by his ploy against Naboth and of course, he did not go unpunished.
The Lord prefers that we operate in the wisdom from above that is peaceable and sown in righteousness other than putting clandestine thoughts into action to hurt and deprive our neighbor. It is really satanic to put together a scheme to remove a person from favor just out of share envy and start telling tales that are clearly put together to discredit the person in the view of those who had rated him or her high in virtue. Such things have multiple ripple effect in that since God is Love, everyone that begins to lose love towards another loses or expunges God from his heart towards the fellow. Therefore, as many as are misled by the lies of the satanic are driven away from righteousness in that matter and operate outside of God. It is therefore, not only the envious that becomes a direct doer of the wicked act, but everyone he enrolls with himself. Hence, the Lord will rather we sow righteousness through peace than go ahead to railroad many to hell through the use of inverted (satanic) wisdom.
SOLUTION: Stop it! Envying and strife bring about evil works and no evil work will go unpunished. Pursue peace and bring forth righteous fruit thereby. Let nothing the enemy is doing towards you move you to becoming a liar to cause many others to lose God from their hearts. Let peace reign in your affairs.
Please pray:
· Give thanks to God for making your heart His abode and from there guiding you unto life
· Ask God to please forgive you of the things you had been led by envy and strife to do to hurt any other person
· Pray God to give you the strength and ability to restitute your ways with those you had hurt
· Pray God to please guide you away from strife and envy, going forward even as He gives you the best reward of righteousness in life
· Ask for your daily bread today
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