Promises of Peace #30

We've talked a lot the last few days about the motives, attitudes, and desires that underly the life of peace. We have also noted more than once in our study, that we cannot create peace, but we are to seek to facilitate it.  Paul wraps these thoughts up nicely in our last passage: Colossians 3:

12 Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. 15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. 

Having done all we can to check our heart attitudes and motives toward one another: compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, patience, more patience, forgiveness and a whole lot of love, when it comes down to it, we need to let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts - to be and do what HE has called us to do. In other words, if we're not letting this happen, we're getting in the way of God's plan, and there is no way there can be peace when we get in the way of the God of peace.