Blessed Are the Peacemakers

Have you ever gotten in the middle of an argument?  Interjected yourself in something and been called everything but a child of God?  

For example, a  policeman called in to smooth out a domestic dispute. Any cop will tell you there is no situation more dangerous. Neither side trusts you. Because they know that you are looking at both sides, you can’t possibly be on their side.

But under God’s rule there is recognition that in bringing good to people who are in the wrong (as both sides usually are) you show the divine family resemblance, “because God Himself is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked (Luke 6:35).

The peacemaker deals precisely with the ungrateful and the wicked, as anyone who has tried it well knows.  And God, who also deals with ungrateful people all the time, understands exatly what you’re going through and you are blessed to have Him right there with you.