The peace keeper is one who compromises just to make everyone feel happy. The peace keeper is often the enabler unable to help in a very real way. Sort of like sweeping the dirt under the rug, the dirt is still there but will make others trip over the pile under there.
Peacemakers are hated by most people but peace keepers are often loved by all.
Mark 13:12-13 "…12 Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against their parents and have them put to death. 13 You will be hated by everyone on account of My name, but the one who perseveres to the end will be saved"
James 4:4
"You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God."
Romans 1:29-30
"being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,"
Those who have experienced what the Bible describes know that not everyone will hate us, those who love Christ will not, however, those who do not love Him above all else will be angry at the truth we speak. Even when we do not speak they hate us for not being them.
There is great joy in knowing that we speak truth to please God, it doesn't matter if someone hates us for it.
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