We
are good at building walls of division. We do this most notably by taking
offense. We do this next most notably by refusing forgiveness. When we take
offense or refuse to forgive, we are hoarding the building materials of
division. We must repent of this. We need to learn to look over sins committed
against us and to readily forgive sins against us when forgiveness is sought. We
must never hold a grudge or nurse a wound. Such grudges and wounds always
fester and need amputated.
God
has torn down the walls that divide us. He abolished them and slew them and
then set us together, fitly framed, in peace in Jesus Christ. Let us be glad at
this and not rebuild those torn down walls.
We are to be people of peace, peace in our hearts with God
and peace with our brothers in the Lord, for Jesus, Himself, is our peace.
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