Romans 14:19 So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.

Romans 12:18 If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.

Matthew 5:11 “Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.

Romans 12:14 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them.

Luke 12:4 I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more that they can do.

Romans 8:36 As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”

It isn’t always easy to live up to the principles that Jesus set before us, but we should try.

Some refuse to cooperate in making peace. That doesn’t mean we should stop trying.

We have been blessed to be called sons of God. We should try to bless others.

We live this life knowing we have a better life waiting. We should try and make this one better.

Just because the enemy has a heavier body count doesn’t mean they are winning. We must try to remember this is about winning souls to Christ, that is where the body count really matters.

We should try to remember that using the tactics of our enemy only works in Satan’s favor.

Isaiah 40:28 Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.

Try and remember He is our strength.

Isaiah 40:31 but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

Hebrews 12:3 Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.

Try and remember what He endured is worse than what we endure.

Try to endure.

Matthew 5:17 Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.

Luke 24:44 Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.”

John 15:25 But the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: ‘They hated me without a cause.’

Romans 8:4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

Romans 13:8 Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

Romans 13:10 Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Galatians 5:14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Galatians 6:2 Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

James 2:8 If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.

If there were anything more that could be said, let it be this.

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Be filled.