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Romans chapter 14 verse 19

so then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.

What a great exhortation here in Romans, Chapter 14,

and these chapters in Romans are just filled with with one-liner

encouragement exhortations to live and to love and to serve and to care as God has called us to and here in verse 19 to hear

God say that we should pursue what makes for peace and for mutual

upbuilding.

We are sinners and we are prone to disagree, we are prone to get into conflict and experience tension with one another and we're prone to tear one another

down. Just the pride and sinfulness and selfishness in each of us is oftentimes just we're looking to advance ourselves

oftentimes at the expense of others and so we need to hear this verse and in a variety of relationships in our

relationships at home I think about marriage I think about kids I think about

parents with kids I think about kids with one another I think about when my kids are having some tension with each

other and I think oh this is a good verse let us pursue what makes for peace and

for mutual upbuilding and the same again in marriage I think about relationships at work

I think a relationship said at in the church let's pursue what makes for peace and for

mutual upbuilding so this exhortation to us is a good reminder that God is honored

when we are pursuing peace and when we are pursuing that which builds up one another, not when we are pursuing strife or being even okay with strife and tension that's unhealthy. We want to pursue peace.

We want to keep from that kind of strife and conflict and we want to build one another

up. God's not honored when we are always looking for what is best

for us. So we pray, God help us. We're prone in so many ways, toward that kind of selfishness toward conflict and

unhealthy tension in relationships with one another we are not perfect

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