Peace Treatments

There's a reason only God can search out and transform the human heart.  While we try to search out and discern the condition of our own hearts, it's futile, mostly because of our tendency to justify what we find in there.  Therein lies the deception, and why the Word says that the human heart is deceitful above all things.  When I search out my heart, find something there I don't like, it's easy for me to justify why it's there, why I need it, why it does me well to keep it.  It is easy to believe my own justification because then it allows me to keep the thing I found, and it is that justification that deceives me. For this reason I am so very grateful for my Father who puts His finger on my heart, touches the thing that He wants to change, and opens my eyes to the justifications that would deceive me.  He truly is a loving, caring Father, always intent on de-cluttering the crap that I have become complacent ...

Jesus said "You have heard that it was said to those of old, You shall not murder and who ever murders will be in danger of the judgement.  But I say to you that whoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgement." (5:21). What is the best guess for why one would be angry with a brother or sister without a cause ? Envy.  Usually, generally, the person who is the target of envy has no clue they are being envied; the anger of the person who is envying them is without a cause.  Now, in the mind of the one who is envying, there is plenty of "cause", but in every single circumstance I can think of from scripture, none of the ones who were angry and murdered or did evil against their brother or sister, did so with a cause.  Cain killed Abel because he envied his relationship with God.  Cain had no cause to be angry. Joseph's brothers sold him because they envied his giftings and place in their father's heart.  The brot...