Ezekiel 45-46, 1 Peter 3, Proverbs 19: 1-12
1 Peter 3: 8-9 (ESV)
“Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy,
brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind. Do not repay evil for evil
or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were
called, that you may obtain a blessing.”
Verses 8 and 9 from 1 Peter 3 shows Peter telling the Church
in modern-day Turkey to have unity as people of faith. I think these verses are
so relevant for today as there seems to be so much divisiveness in the world.
We need to have unity as people of faith. We are all different and we have many
different beliefs and customs, but we need to choose unity as people of faith
as our beliefs in God and Jesus is what united us. We cannot harm others when
others wrong us. Peter tells us we need to bless them instead.
I love how Peter writes that as a person of faith you are
called to always bless people, even the ones who do you harm. I find myself blessing
people who won’t agree with me or whose politics I don’t agree with or do not
understand. I bless them and I ask God to show and school me why I am not more
neutral in my feelings towards those who don’t agree with me. I don’t have want
to not like people who don’t agree with me, and I want God to show me how to
love everyone more even those who seem like my enemies. I don’t know if I will ever
have the loving heart of Jesus Christ, but I want to try. Jesus loved everyone,
even those who despised and hated him. Christ is the example I want to follow
on how to treat everyone in my life.
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