Proverbs 20:3 When God Says...I Say, AMEN!

When God says...

"It is honorable for a man to stop striving, Since any fool can start a quarrel." (Proverbs 20:3 NKJV)

It is a man's mark of integrity and honor to avert contention and quarrel, which sadly are the hallmarks of fools. Agitation is their sort of 'kind of thing'. A fool keeps a strife going. He has no intention to stop making trouble. He meddles in everybody else's business. He causes and kindles strife. A fool rushes in every spat. He has no self-restraint. He dives in the fray like a moth diving precisely straight into the flame. Order can turn disorder in an instant when fools arrive. They are a unique kind of species who can't live in peace. Their staple diet is trouble.

But, praises to God for honorable men and women who are full of grace and truth, in Christ Jesus. They, who stop strife, turn their cheeks the other way when affronts are thrown by fools to ignite a fight.

That's how we should be, as believers, saved by the blood of Jesus. We should be working on our salvation in the fullness of the Lord’s grace and truth. As we walk in His grace and His truth, He supplies us with grace in various forms (1 Peter 4:10). By His Spirit who lives in us, He guides us. So, His peace shall reign. Not working it out on our self-effort to do good, but labor to totally depend in grace through faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, scriptures enjoin us with these words: "Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord. See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many.” (Hebrews 12:14, 15 NIV)

All these we fulfill, not by 'good works' of religious practices and rituals.  But, according to the declaration of our Lord Jesus Christ, by believing in Him! It is written: "Then they said to him, “What must we do, to be doing the works of God?” Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”" (John 6:28-19 ESV)

And I say, AMEN!

Daily reflections by:
F. A. Frias
PFC Ministries

(When God says... I say, AMEN! is a provocative reflection of the Lord's holy Word. It intends to challenge every seeker of truth to dig deep into the core of the Word of Life to point every being to Christ Jesus - the author and finisher of our faith, and to draw revelations for change, for nourishment and for strength of every soul.)

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