Do Not Think That I Have Come To Establish Peace!

Hello! and happy good first day of the week to all of us, GUYS.  Our "food for the soul" this Monday:

THE GOOD NEWS (11 July 2016)

"Do not think that I have come to establish peace on earth.  I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.  For I have come to set a man against his father and daughter against her mother; a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.  Each one will have as enemies those of one's own family." - Matthew 10:34-36

Peace In An Unpeaceful World

(The peace of the believer comes from the certainty of being loved by GOD: the angels of Bethlehem said so: Luke 2:14.

JESUS gives no peace to the world, because the rest of the world is made up of confusion, half-truths, people who live midway between greed and fear of risking.  The peace of the world, whether in a family or in society, veils unjust conditions imposed by the strongest, or a shared mediocrity.  The Gospel awakens everywhere a critical spirit; so that the presence of only one Christian living by the truth is enough to worry many persons: John 3:20; 15:18.

The Gospel moves us to make decisions with greater freedom, disregarding the criticism of those close to us whenever we are convinced that they cannot understand the Gospel values which motivate us.  Take, for example, a pregnant girl resisting her parents' advice to obtain an abortion.  Christians have been persecuted in many countries for teaching that divine law is above parental authority, which was considered the supreme authority.  Thus it happened with the ancient Romans and, more recently, in Korea and China.

Moreover, the devil stirs up persecutions against every person who becomes converted, in order to scare her and make her turn away.)

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