"Peacemakers" are those who tell the truth to heal the broken and bleeding, "peacekeepers" are those who place a bandaide over a gapping wound to hide it, nothing is resolved and the wound grows larger and eventually deadly.
Jeremiah 30:12-17
12 “For this is what the Lord says:
‘Your broken limb is irreparable,
13 There is no one to plead your cause;
No healing for your sore,
No recovery for you.
14 All your lovers have forgotten you,
They do not seek you;
For I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy,
With the punishment of a cruel one,
Because your wrongdoing is great,
And your sins are numerous.
15 Why do you cry out over your injury?
Your pain is incurable.
Because your wrongdoing is great
And your sins are numerous,
I have done these things to you.
16 Therefore all who devour you will be devoured;
And all your adversaries, every one of them, will go into captivity;
And those who plunder you will become plunder,
And all who plunder you I will turn into plunder.
17 For I will restore you to health
And I will heal you of your wounds,’ declares the Lord,
‘Because they have called you an outcast, saying:
“It is Zion; no one [c]cares for her.”’
God brings hardship and punishment to cause the people to come to Him. It is only when we are devastated and see no way to fix a problem when we turn to God.
When we go to God first with everything we can avoid the discipline of the Lord. The arrogance of wanting to figure things out for ourselves brings much pain and failure.
Let Christ rule in you and even your failures will turn into blessings!
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