Psalm 27:12 ESV
...for false witnesses have risen against me, and they breathe out violence.

This is what sin has done to our world. We don't love our neighbour, we are jealous of them, they are our enemy, or we just ignore them.
We don't love God with our whole heart. We put creation in his place. The temorary pleasures of this world.
Sin causes us to set up our own little kingdom with me as the king. And when others don't do what i want i rage against them.
Sometimes the quiet rage of bitterness
Sometimes the rage of angry words and condemnation
Sometimes physical & violence.
This is what sin does to us all.
We breathe out violence...
So how come there is any peace?
Any cooperation?
Any love?
Grace.
Against the backdrop of sin, grace shines.
Grace that restrains, grace that blesses.
Grace that has its source in God, its embodiment in Jesus, and its outworking in our lives through the Spirit.
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