Pursuing Peace

Psalm 34:14 “Turn away from evil and do what is good; seek peace and pursue it.” ~CSB

You pull up to the grocery store. You park your car. As you get out of your car a man walks up to you angry. He yells at you claiming that you deliberately parked in a space where he was intending to park. He says you saw his intentions but you parked there anyway. In actuality, you did not see him and this is all a mistake. At this point, this man does nothing physical, but he is in your face and appearing confrontational. What do you do?

Maybe the Lord heard someone praying for this man’s anger and God decides to allow this angry man to cross paths with one of His precious children. One of His children who has shown obedience and great spiritual strength in their walk in Christ. That chosen child is you. Now with this perspective I ask again, what do you do? Well, there may be many things you want to do under your own power. But this is a time where we allow God to take over and allow His healing power in blessings to do its work.

This type of Christian behavior may be hard at first so let’s take a look at our situation first. We have a confrontation in front of us. A man arguing over a parking space. The evil one has influenced this man to create actions that will take away our obedience to God. It will take away our peace and the enemy hopes that by doing this, our actions in response will stand in the way of allowing God to do a great work in us. A great work in healing and blessing; not only for who is in our path; but also for us, in Jesus’ name.

What we must do is ‘turn away’ from our feelings of participating in confrontation. We must ‘turn away’ from our feelings of embarrassment, hurt and anger. ‘Turn away and do what is good…’ God gives us an ‘out’ in Philippians 4:7 when He says that His peace will surpass any understanding we may have of a situation in front of us. In other words, we may not know what God is about to do through us when we stand in obedience to His Word in ‘any’ circumstance. The peace we have is knowing that God will use us to do the right thing, say the right thing and ‘be’ the righteous one in the room. This is where miracles happen. When we allow His peace to take over our thoughts and actions, He will guard our hearts and minds in His Son’s name.

Although that situation above may be a hard one to work with, (should we ever be faced with it), we must prepare ourselves because the enemy is good for throwing weak spiritual minded people at us, because he wants us to fail as Christians. But fear not! ‘Seek God’s peace and pursue it!’ In that we can never go wrong.
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May God bless and protect you as you walk your journey in the name of Jesus.

Amen

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