Lk 12:49-53
Not Peace but Division
49 “I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! 50 But I have a baptism to undergo, and what constraint I am under until it is completed! 51 Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division. 52 From now on there will be five in one family divided against each other, three against two and two against three. 53 They
will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother
against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against
daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”
There's an old expression, "to separate the men from the boys." The mission of Jesus is just that: not peace but division. We are either for him or against him. Scary! We must make a choice. The Evil One is working hard as we look at our world caving daily it seems into more and more chaos as people drift further and further away from the teachings of Jesus. May the fire that Jesus brought ignite us anew to live his teachings and share them with others.
Bro. Rene
Dear God, help me and all of us to be set ablaze with the fire of your teachings and negate the teachings of the Evil One before they negate us. Amen.
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