Sown Of Peace

Who is wise and understanding among you? LET him show by good conduct that his words are done in the meekness of wisdom. O Prince of Peace, keep us, we pray, from strife and enmity: Help us to speak with loving words that calm hostility. These verse show the difference between men's pretending to be wise and their being really so. He who do well, or he who takes well, is not wise in the sense of the Scripture. If he does not live and act well. This wisdom may be know by the meekness of the spirit and temper those who live in malice, envy and contention, live in confusion; and are liable to be provoked and hurried to make evil work. Such wisdom comes not down from above, but spring up from earthly principle acts on earthly motives and intent on serving earthly purpose. These who are lifted up with such wisdom, discribed by the apostle James, is near to the christian love, described by the apostle Paul; and both are so described that every man may fully prove the reality of his attainment in them. It has no disguise or deceit. It cannot fall in with those management the world counts wise, which are crafty and guileful, but it is sincere, and open, and steady, and uniform, and consistent with itself may the purity, peace, gentleness, teachableness, and mercy show it all your actions, and fruits of righteousness abounding in ours lives proves that God has bestowed upon us this excellent gift. The small church in Umbrage Texas, was unlikely place for an international work of art. But toward the end of World War Ii, seven Italian prisoners of war, who were being held at a large camp nearby, were chosen to help decorate the church's plain brick walls. The prisoner were reluctant to aid their captors, but they agreed on the condition that their effort be considered a contrbution toward Christian brotherhood and understanding. But as they worked on their paintings and a woodcarving of the Last Supper, one of the POWs later recalled. "A spontaneous stream of good feelings began almost at once to flow among us." No one spoke of the war or the past because "We were here for a work of peace and love." Our lives are filled with unlikely settings for introducing Gods peace. We can feel imprisoned by hard feelings. Strained relationship, and confining circumstances. But  peace has the power to break out anywhere. James reminded us that "the wisdom that is from above is peacable, gentle, willing to yield... The fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by these who make peace (James 3:17-18). Wherever we are today, lets ask the Lord to use us as His peacemakers. The best peacemaker are those who know the peace of God.