Peacemakers

“Blessed are the peacemakers: they shall be recognized as children of God” (Matthew 5:9)

This is the only time the word peacemakers is ever used in the whole Bible. A peacemaker literally is the “one who reconciles quarrels.” Clearly you can see Jesus is not on the side of the violent but on the side of the nonviolent.

Jesus is saying there must be a connection, a clear consistency, a constant unity between means and ends.

There is no way to peace other than peacemaking itself.

(Richard Rohr, Jesus’ Plan for the New World)

Comments

[Sara]

Hi Mike - Thanks so much for this. I prayed a prayer about 2 hours ago, and this post is such an encouragement to me with regards to that... what a gift. Thank you!