now we get down to one of the greatest causes for conflict and that is living without CHRIST in your life.
is your home in conflict right now? do you have some real tension going on in your family? it needs JESUS CHRIST right at the center of it.t
are you having conflict at work? you need the SPIRIT of CHRIST living through you.
ephesians 4.3 (ncv) you are joined together with peace through the SPIRIT, so make every effort to continue together in this way.
you see the SPIRIT joins us together, into our families, into our marriages. in order for you to get along with other people you must grow more and more like JESUS CHRIST.
but listen, it's not imitation but habitation. every day when i consciously choose to put somebody else's rights before my own, to serve another, to build people up instead of tearing them down, to sacrifice for the benefit of others i am becoming more like JESUS CHRIST. and that is the secret of lasting joy.
and as long as you are asking "what's going to make me happy?" you're never going to be happy. you've got to get a purpose bigger than yourself to live for. the problem with a self-made man is that he usually worships his maker. and that's a small god.
just a thought from the front porch...
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