We have looked at the many attributes of My love toward all of humanity. The one that is the most difficult for My children to understand and show toward others is that love never insists on its own way. In other words, love never insists that it is right and others are wrong. (I Corinthians 13:4-5)
You remember when you were obviously right in a matter and I asked you if you would rather be right or righteous. You understood completely that love does not insist that another person is wrong in anything because that means that you think that you are completely right, which comes from arrogance and pride. The righteous thing to do is what I do to you, which is to allow the other person free will to believe what his or her heritage, experience and learning have taught the person to believe. You must compromise by kindly and graciously allowing other people the same free will to believe what their life has taught them to believe. (Matthew 5:44-48)
Real love compromises. There are many reasons for compromising. The primary one is to keep peace. Since Jesus is the Prince of Peace, you must be His ambassador of peace in the earth out of My love for all people. Avoiding conflict is keeping peace. Compromising is keeping peace. (Ephesians 4:3)
Think about a kettle of liquid which is in a rolling boil. Adding boiling water will only enhance the heat and further the possible injurious effects of the boiling liquid. But, if cold water is added to the rolling boil of the liquid, then the boil is dissipated and becomes calm because coolness has been added to the heat.
It's the same thing with never insisting on your own way. When you add coolness to the hot temper of another person by not insisting on your own way, then you allow the temper of the other person to cool down, just like the boiling liquid cools down when cold is added to it. In never insisting on your own way, you avoid possible toxic situations and never allow them to develop.
This truth is found in the teaching of My Holy Spirit who said that if you will let me avenge you by eventually showing who is right, then you have avoided an injurious situation which might eventually require forgiveness on your part if you insist that you are right and circumstances eventually prove that you are wrong. I said not to return evil for evil but to allow me to avenge you as being right if you are, in fact, right. (Romans 12;17-21) It's better to be righteous rather than be right. If circumstances do prove that you are right, then so be it. You will still have been gracious, sowing seeds into My kingdom in the situation by not opposing the other person by insisting that you were right.
Keeping peace with others is an outgrowth of My love flowing from Me to you and outward to others. Insisting that you are right works against peace and adds to turmoil and strife, which are the handiwork of evil. So you must be cool headed, like the pouring of cold water on the boiling liquid. Then peace is instituted and strife is averted. That's what love does. (Romans 14:17-18)
I said that where there is strife there is every evil work, meaning every work of the devil. So when you compromise with someone by not insisting on being right with the other person being wrong, then peace is maintained and My kingdom is able to work blessings into the lives of both parties.(James 3:15-16)
Make it your aim to add a loving attitude to every oppositional person and the boiling tempers of other people. When you do, you will live a righteous life which inherits all of the blessings of My kingdom. (Romans 14:17-18)
Your Peace Loving Father
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