Daily Affirmations - Day 7 - Are You Able? - Instrument of Peace
- Alisa B.
- Apr 11
- 2 min read
Day 7: Instrument of peace
And [Jesus] sent messengers on ahead, who went into a Samaritan village to get things ready for Him; but the people there did not welcome Him, because He was heading for Jerusalem. When the disciples James and John saw this, they asked, “Lord, do you want us to call fire down from heaven to destroy them?” But Jesus turned and rebuked them (Luke 9:52-55).
The disciples did not consider that the conduct of the Samaritans was rather the effect of national prejudices and bigotry, than of enmity to the word and worship of God; and though they refused to receive Christ and His disciples, they did not ill use or injure them… Nor were they aware that the gospel dispensation was to be marked by miracles of mercy.
But above all, they were ignorant of the prevailing motives of their own hearts, which were pride and carnal ambition. Of this our Lord warned them. It is easy for us to say, “Come, see our zeal for the Lord!”, and to think we are very faithful in His cause, when we are seeking our own objects, and even doing harm instead of good to others.
~ Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me bring love.
Where there is offence, let me bring pardon.
Where there is discord, let me bring union.
Where there is error, let me bring truth.
Where there is doubt, let me bring faith.
Where there is despair, let me bring hope.
Where there is darkness, let me bring your light.
Where there is sadness, let me bring joy.
O Lord, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love,
for it is in giving that one receives,
it is in self-forgetting that one finds,
it is in forgiving that one is forgiven,
it is in dying that one awakens to eternal life.
~ Anonymous/Unknown ~ often attributed to Francis of Assisi (c. 1182-1226)
~ English translation of first known publication ~ La Clochette, December 1912
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