Narcissists love people pleasers, those who do not take a strong position about anything. People pleasers are not very useful for the Kingdom of God.
Pleasing people usually creates superficial relationships that never go deeper into truth.
When we love the Lord we wish to be kind and loving not at the expense of truth.
A peacemaker is different from peace keeping. Peace keepers will compromise truth to maintain superficial happiness. The peacemaker desires to get to the core of truth that character is changed for the better.
Peace keepers are superficially happy people but they have little depth.
Peacemakers get to the root of a matter for a depth of character improvement.
Peacekeepers rarely grow and change.
Peacemakers seem to be constantly rejected by the superficial world we live in, but will grow to a depth of character that only takes hard decisions and possibility of rejection in order to defend truth.
Peace keeping is of little value, peace making is hard work but produces real solutions to problems.
If you were to take a problem to a peace keeper you would hear things like "oh honey it will all work out." OR, you many notice they are uncomfortable with talking about need for a solution because there is a problem. Peace keepers are not helpful in time of trials.
The peace maker will take us to the Word for the solution, they will pray with us and they will listen intently with interest, but not for making someone feel better, they desire to seek a solution that will change things, either in our own character and the character of others.
Galatians 1:10
"For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ."
1 Thessalonians 2:4
"But just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please man, but to please God who tests our hearts."
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