Day 30: Tuesday 3/24

READ: James 3:13-18 (revisit)

Are any of you wise and understanding? Show that your actions are good with a humble lifestyle that comes from wisdom. However, if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, then stop bragging and living in ways that deny the truth. This is not the wisdom that comes down from above. Instead, it is from the earth, natural and demonic. Wherever there is jealousy and selfish ambition, there is disorder and everything that is evil. What of the wisdom from above? First, it is pure, and then peaceful, gentle, obedient, filled with mercy and good actions, fair, and genuine. Those who make peace sow the seeds of justice by their peaceful acts.

REFLECT 

Godly wisdom produces peace. Not the absence of conflict, but the active pursuit of justice, shalom, and the flourishing of all. God's wisdom looks like mercy in action, peace pursued at cost, gentleness that doesn't need to win. But peacemakers who sow in peace — who refuse to weaponize division for their own gain — reap God's righteousness.

RESPOND 

Where are you holding on to being right instead of seeking peace? Choose one relationship and actively pursue peace today.

PRAY 

God, make us peacemakers. Give us wisdom to sow justice-shaped peace and reap your righteousness. Amen.