I am fine today. I attended the Sunday service this morning. A visiting pastor from Hong Kong preached a topic called “blessed are those who make peace with people.”
Those who always make peace with people will definitely be able to enjoy life more than those who always have conflict with people. I see many family conflicts arise due to family members failed to make peace with each other. Sometime, it is very disheartening to see people suffering due to unnecessary conflict.
Some ways to make peace with people are to forgive, accept and tolerate them. It is very easy to advice people to pursue these make-peace characters; to live with these characters successfully can be difficult. If we are dealing with family related problem, one way that helps is to view our family as ‘one body’ where each members are organ of the body. With this, if we feel that anyone of them is really unreasonable, we should still be able to tolerate and accept them easily.
For example, I am now fighting GVHD where my immune system is attacking my eyes, mouth-throat, skin and liver. These organs under attack cannot say to the immune system, “You! Trouble maker, we kick you out of the body!” because immune system is part of my body :-) Instead of kicking out the immune system, these organs learn to tolerate and live with it to preserve the body.
This ‘one body’ concept is elevated from family to church where its members are considered as organs of the church. Bible says, “For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body…” I believe this ‘one body’ concept is particularly important in resolving conflict within the church as well :-)
If you are having problem with your spouse, children, sibling, do something now. Apologize, even if you feel you that you are completely right! Make peace with them and you will be blessed :-)
See you next post :-)
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