Avoiding a fight is a mark of honor;only fools insist on quarreling.—Proverbs 20:3 (NLT)Starting a quarrel is like opening a floodgate,
so stop before a dispute breaks out.—Proverbs 17:14 (NLT)
Heavenly Father,
The time we are given here on earth is short—so may I always look for ways to live at peace with others.
How can You use me to
reach others with Your love, if I foolishly choose to live in strife with them?
Aren’t my attacks against them and my defense of myself only going to result in
greater distance between us? And in that
distance, how will we ever come to a resolution of our differences and a
restoration of the peaceful relationship that You desire for us to have?
So help me to move my
pride aside—stop making it all about myself—and allow You to truly work in and
through me to reach out to others with Your love, so I can bring honor to You
and peace to my life.
Let my first impulse be to
quench every spark of contention, as I stand guard against the foolishness of
giving into any temptation to fight—which would only open a floodgate of
trouble upon myself.
Help me always to walk in
Your ways—so that I might stop each dispute, even before it begins.
The time we are given here on earth is short—so may I always look for ways to live at peace with others.
In the name of Jesus,
Amen.
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