I often lose sight of how I should be. When someone does something mean, I'll sometimes do something mean back to them. However, I'm getting better in this area. We as the children of God, are supposed to live peaceably with everyone, to the best of our abilities. The scriptures tell us that those who are peace makers, will be called the children of God. So, if we are going to be children of God, we need to be peace makers. God, wants us to live a life without stress, but if we want a life without stress, we must live peaceably with other people. If you worked at your job for let's say 20 years and I came in as a new employee and said, "You're not doing your job right, you stink at this!" What would I be doing, except causing trouble? You would probably say something to a boss about me and I'd get fired and that would bring me more stress. We have the power within us to live peacefully or to live stressfully.

Also, when we as followers of Christ, don't make peace, we are automatically persecuted for it. For example, someone will say, "You're not a very great follower, causing trouble all the time!" That is also being a bad witness and when we are bad witnesses, we will turn others away from the Lord. We are held responsible for turning someone away from the faith.

I hear one thing that is very true, but it shouldn't be. Many wars and murders are caused because of religion and this shouldn't be. We as followers of Christ, should be able to live a life of peace and we shouldn't be fighting with other people. There will be times, when we do fight with other people, but we need to make most of our life a peaceful one. We need to show people that we are people of peace and love. We need to display the love and peace of God. Are you displaying that? I don't think I always do and I'll admit it.

Prayer: Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for this message. Please forgive us of all our sins and we forgive those who've wronged, us. Please put the peace and love of God, in our hearts through the power of the Holy Spirit. Bring us close to you and when people see us and talk to us, may they know by our fruits that we are the children of God. In Jesus, name. A-men!