Words4Wonder Blog

    Matthew 5:9   “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God”   There are two things that stick out to me when I read this scripture. For one, in order to be called “children of God ”, we are to have peace: it’s a collective trait we must all share. The second thing is that the scripture didn’t say peace, it sa ys “peacemakers ”, implying some level of work to be done to receive it. Peace is inherited from God, but that doesn’t mean work is not required to receive it. Peace requires trust, and trust requires a full surrendering: completely submitting our problems to him, having solace in the fact that God’s security is bigger than our circumstances.  As I've gotten older, I’ve always questioned what true peace is. Questions like “When will I ever reach peace?” or “Am I even deserving of peace? ” . I don’t think I’m alone in asking these questions. Whether you have said it verbally or not, we’ve all wanted our situat...

John 1:12    “ Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed his name, he gave the right to become children of God”   Identity is always something I have struggled with. I believed that if I did not act a certain way with certain people I would not be accepted. I built my identity on the perception of others: letting other people's opinion of me dictate my value as a person. One thing I didn’t realise was that my value had already been written , something established long before I was even born. My value: your value, is built through Jesus. And so, we can’t let the opinion of others affect us, whether positive or negative because our identity is not built on the perception of others but of God. We are all seen di fferently by different people , maybe your someone’s brother or sister, a mum or a dad, or something else. The most common association t o our identity is our names. It’s what our friends , teachers and family refer to us by: an associat...