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June Monday 10th
TOPIC: THE SECRET OF A PEACEFUL
LIFE – LIVE IN RIGTHEOUSNESS
TEXT: Isaiah 32:16-18
KEY VERSE: Psalm 85:10 Mercy
and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
Get righteousness and peace will
follow. Have you noticed that when you offend somebody you don’t have peace
until you go and say, “I am sorry for what I did?” It is like when a dust
particle gets into your eye, you don’t have peace until it is removed. You will be restless and your eyes will be
blinking, running water until somebody comes around to help you blow it out.
Once the disturbing particle is out, you become peaceful and you can now blink
normally without any stress. What the dirt particle does to the eye is what sin
does to your life. It makes you restless. You have spoken some lies, so you are
always afraid. You have gone into immorality, you will become afraid – afraid
of unwanted pregnancy, afraid of contacting the HIV virus or being found out by
your wife or husband, so you become restless.
There was a story about a
particular young boy in the University of Abuja who was approached by a woman
to help her out in her academics. This young man did not have a good
understanding of the risk involved in allowing a woman to come to his room or
maybe he thought he could restrain himself for he was a virgin. One day, that
woman came visiting and this heavy rain started. The rain stretched into the
night such that the woman could not go home again. She slept in the boy’s room.
Now Satan is at work. Before he knew it, he had slept with the woman and in the
process he contacted the HIV virus. Since then, he lost his peace. The
misadventure of just one night took away the peace of a lifetime! Be righteous
and you will see peace because righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
Do that which is right and you will be fine. Are you constantly faced with
temptation? Commit it to Jesus in prayer.
A woman was always fighting with
her husband so she approached a pastor for solution. Sensing the cause of the
problem, the pastor applied wisdom and gave her candle wax that was moulded
like a small ball. He told her, “Anytime your husband picks quarrel with you,
go into the room and put this medicine in your mouth but make sure he doesn’t
see it.” She did this over time and to her surprise, the husband started to
mellow down because while she kept the object in her mouth, she too couldn’t
reply the husband. She thought it was the “medicine” working, but the truth is
that the object kept her from sinning, so righteousness and peace kissed each
other in her home.
Thought
for the day:
Righteousness promotes peace. Do not forsake
it.
Song
for the day: We have
come to thee o Lord (2x) ... That it might be well with us
#Horemow.
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