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STEPS TO PEACEMAKING--REFUSE TO ACCEPT THE DEFENSIVE WALLS
If we accept the walls of defense that people put up around their lives, we are defeated before we start. If members of your family (or even your own spouse) do not wish to communicate or fellowship with you, the natural inclination is to stay away yourself and pay them back with their own medicine. But this only tends to accentuate the problem and build the walls of separation even thicker and higher.
The devil is a... divider of the brethren. He knows the power that people have when unity is flowing. Therefore it is to his advantage to split and divide the precious unity God requires for His blessings to flow.
The devil quickly tries to build walls of hurt, unforgiveness, anger, argument, and hate. Refusing to acknowledge, reach out, and fellowship with certain Christians because they do not belong to the same denomination as you, or because they view certain minor doctrines differently to you is to fall into the enemy’s trap to divide the brethren.
Religious pride is one of the biggest walls that divides the brethren. Proverbs 6:19 says that sowing discord among brethren is one of the seven things that God hates and is an abomination to Him.
Walls are made to keep certain people out, but Jesus is in the business of breaking walls down, thereby bringing peace.
Ephesians 2:14: “For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us.”
Psalm 133:1-3: “Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron’s beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; as the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life forevermore.”
Be encouraged.
Colin Campbell
