Blessed Are The Peacemakers

It is Wednesday, 2nd September 2020, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for the day.

If we go to the Gospel of Matthew Chapter 5 and verse 9, the Word of God says:

“Blessed are the peacemakers,
For they shall be called sons of God.”

You know to be a peaceable person is the opposite of selfish ambition.

A peaceful person will always prefer others.

A person who has his own ends at stake and he is not really concerned about anybody else is normally a troublemaker.

Peace breeds righteous conduct which God always blesses.

A peacemaker has the authority of God.

A peacemaker by the way, is not a sissy.

The Bible does not say, “Blessed are the peace-lovers.” No, no!

Blessed are the peacemakers! And to be a peacemaker sometimes you have got to stand up against what everybody else says because what is right, is right.

By the way, you cannot generate peace.

You either have it or you do not have it. Why? Because it comes from God.

Blessed is the man who makes peace for he will be recognized as a true child of God.

I don’t know if you agree with me, but spending time with erratic people makes you very tired.

It is hard work.

The word, “erratic” according to the dictionary is to stray, to be this way and that way.

I want to say to moms and dads, you need to discipline your children if you want to have a peaceable home.

That is not a joke. Don’t keep threatening your child , “I will do this if you don’t do that,” and you don’t do it. That is being erratic.

Your child needs to know when he steps out of line, there are consequences for his actions.

He will be punished if he continues to tease or to hurt his little brother or his sister.

You can’t keep saying,”I will smack you if you keep doing that”, and then you don’t follow through. You have to be steadfast if you want peace in your home.

You know we have a saying here at Shalom, “The world stands aside for a man who knows where he is going.”

A peacemaker is self-assured. Why? Because he knows The Prince of Peace.

Our “yes” must be yes and our “no” must be no.

We can’t blow hot and cold. We must be even-tempered.

I remember a story, many, many years ago.

As a young man, 19 years old, I was at Agricultural College in bonnie Scotland, and in the afternoons we had to do practical work.

I was sent out with an old Scotsman, with a tractor and a trailer, and we had to go and collect silage.

And that silage was very hard to get out of the pit. We didn’t have a front-end loader like they have nowadays.

We used forks. And he backed this huge trailer up against the silage pit and he took off his jacket and he started putting the silage into the trailer.

I said to him, “Sir, please sit down. I will do it myself.”

He said to me, “Don’t worry laddie. I will do my bit and you do your bit.”

And we started. Well, I was extremely erratic. I went for it like a bull in a China shop and after twenty minutes, I was exhausted. I was sweating, even though there was three foot of snow outside.

And the old man just kept on steadily forking in the silage to the trailer.

I tell you something now, that brought peace to my heart.

I saw an old gentleman working like he had been working for years.

He knew where he was going and he knew where he was going.

Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the sons of God.