Sowing Peace

Peacemakers who sow in peace raise a harvest of righteousness.

James 3:18

Looking at this scripture I thought about what it meant to "sow in peace" because of some things that have recently gone on in my life. To sow means to plant. Many people are familiar with the passage that say's "You reap what you Sow" This is the same principle and James say's if we want to harvest righteousness or living right with God then we must sow peace.

It's difficult to "sow in peace" and it's so easy to do the opposite. The opposite of sow in peace are the following: "prove I'm right and you’re wrong," "make my point," "ignore my flaws and see the flaws in others" or the favorite "making sure I have the final word." Recently I have had the opportunity to sow in peace. Here's what sowing in peace looks like:

Repair the heart: There’s always more to an attitude, a word, or an outburst, these are just symptoms to something deeper, sometimes that's all we see and we ignore the heart.

Extend Grace: Grace pardons, it forgives, it's hard to do immediately but when grace is attempted immediately more often then not you'll see immediate results (A Gentle answer turns away wrath...Proverbs 15:1)

Have a Love that stretches: The bible say's "Love covers a multitude of sin." The ability to cover someone in love is found when your love can stretch past offense, past hurt, past wrong doing.

"When we sow in peace at the same time we are sewing back a relationship, the heart, and a life and this is where the righteousness of God can truly be found."