We could use a
long embrace with steadfast love and faithfulness and more public displays of
affection between righteousness and peace. That’s because when God’s people
live as “sin blotted out” forgiven folk, fortunes are restored, hearts rejoice
and the land itself yields an increase. But when envy kisses bitter strife and
hatred and selfish ambition embrace everyone suffers. And so God speaks peace
by forgiving sin to turn hearts towards the pathway prepared by righteousness,
which is always an attitude before it shows up as behavior. It would be a
lovely thing if the church could fall madly in love with righteousness and peace
and act like a school girl or boy giddy with the first blush of young love. Imagine
what we could accomplish by throwing caution to the wind and recklessly
engaging in PDA of the sort that would make those outside the faith long for
the same sort of relationship we have with each other and the God who whispers,
"Peace."
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