August 10 Devotion

Barbara will tell you that there are some movies that I like to watch whenever I see them pop up on TV. Even though I’ve seen them multiple times. Warrior is one of those. This movie was released in 2011. The title alone should kind of tell you what it’s about. Basically, it’s a story of a broken family. Involving two brothers and a father who don’t see eye-to-eye. The warrior part of it refers to the family being tied to mixed martial arts and wrestling. It really is one of my favorite movies. Not because of the fighting. But because of the life lessons that it presents. Just a family full of turmoil trying to find peace. Something that was very difficult for them to do. And it’s culminates with the older brother telling the younger brother that he loves him. Which you can tell it’s going to lead to a healing and peace in the family.

The common theme for several of the devotions recently have been on finding peace. That hasn’t been intentional on my part. It’s just been something that God has put on my heart. And I think it’s important for me to listen to what he’s telling me. I have said several times in order for us to have lasting peace, we must have God in our lives. We must have peace with him. If we do that, then we will find peace in our daily lives. Because having God in our lives helps us see things differently. Helps us find God in all that we do. Helps us find ways to love others that we couldn’t love before. We couldn’t love them sometimes because of their doing. And sometimes because of our doing. But with God, we can get past that.

In the movie, the characters didn’t want to work on their relationships. You could see it. They were fine with coexisting. That is no way for a relationship to work. We point a finger at the other person expecting them to make the first step. And even when they do so, sometimes we don’t accept it. Our pride can get in the way of that. We can even find ourselves hoping that they suffer in someway. To the point that we might even celebrate when they do. We don’t want to see them succeed. We even let pride get in the way of our relationship with Jesus. We think we don’t need him. We couldn’t be more wrong. And also just as in the movie, all it takes is one step for peace to start to happen. The brother telling the younger sibling that he loves him changed everything. And that is the same way as a relationship with Christ works. We just need to take one step towards him. That’s it. Accepting him changes everything. If you haven’t done so yet, make today the day you do. And if you have done so already, make today of the day you continue building that relationship. Let’s all make today the day that we strive for eternal peace.

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