Happy Monday a brand new week. Hey, do you know What is the loneliest cheese? Yeah you got
it Prov-alone.
Our meditation today is focused on Prov. 17:1 “Better a dry crust eaten in peace than a house filled with feasting—and conflict.”
This is a strait forward concept being told. Conflict destroys all the good things that matter, whether it is food, nice house, money, etc.
The following verses point out or illustrate those very things that can easily bring conflict into our homes and life.
Vs. 2 a (selfish) rebellious child
Vs. 3 a (ungrateful) corrupted heart
Vs. 4 a person who places value on
gossip & slander
I’m sure we have all witnessed at least one of these areas of conflict in our lives at some time. We may have even been one of those people of conflict.
This verse is asking us to examine our lives and try to determine for ourselves if in fact we are a point of conflict in others lives.
Are we selfless in our relationships with others?
Am I grateful to others for what I daily enjoy?
Do I refuse to listen to others who purposefully spread gossip about others, or look for ways to speak slanderously of others in my life?
So God With God and be cautious to stere clear of others who stir up conflict, but instead redirect this conflict to peace.
Have noticed how easy it is in our world to find conflict rather than purposefully direct ourselves & others to conversations that brings peacefulness?
So when we search for ways to inject peacefulness into our world, how that is a breath of fresh air to those about us. That involves the conflict about us and then the desire & skill to turn it around.