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And the seed whose fruit is righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. Janes 3:18 NASB Monday! Back to the gym! This is part of James' description of wise & understanding people is the call to be peace makers, manufacturers of peace. This is not just loving peace, enjoying peace, but manufacturing peace, actively working towards it. Construction. This is not easy work. Construction takes planning, sometimes involves experts, takes time, investment, work. Construction has an objective. The objective here is to plant seeds. Not responsible for the fruit, just the planting. Seeds who's fruit is righteousness, that's the outcome. Righteousness is about our relationship with God. That's what James is about...in constructing peace right relationships with God are started or restored... Confession, restitution, justice, restoration... change... When it comes to our relationship with God, change is inevitable... #james #Godsgym #peacemakers...

Better a dry crust with peace and quiet than a house full of feasting, with strife. Proverbs 17:1 NIV The "house full of feasting" seems like a place of plenty, of surplus, of wealth. A place where the fridge is always full of food. A place where there is a fridge. Compared to the place where there's only bread - and even that isn't fresh. Better this place with peace, than the place of surplus with strife. Is the subtle message here that in the striving for the surplus, the place of plenty, in that striving we lose our peace? We lose what's really important? It's not about having plenty or not, but the life we live. A life full of strife, or one of peace. #choose #better #peace #peacemakers #proverbs #wisdom #somethingtochewon

Friday! Proverbs! Better a dry crust with peace and quiet than a house full of feasting, with strife. Proverbs 17:1 NIV What's your favourite feast? We all have one...and I wonder if my favourite is more about the memory of the feeling it evokes rather than the food itself? But this proverb is not about the food, but about the heart. Our favourite food, the feast, is no good to anyone if there's strife, unresolved conflict, hurt, enmity. These are issues of the heart. The joy of the feast goes when we are not at peace with one another. We are called to do whatever we can to be peacemakers. It's not always possible, but we're called to try To choose "Better" #choose #better #peace #peacemakers #proverbs #wisdom #somethingtochewon