Praying for the world...healing conflict

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TMCYouth.com has got some great conversations going -- on all kinds of topics! Check them out here. A weekly poll asks visitors how they are praying for the world on a variety of issues. This is mine about healing conflict.

Conflict anywhere can be boiled down to a belief in limitation or division fueled by fear.When there is the thought of limited resources (which could be land, money, inheritance, homes, opportunity, time or people, etc.), there can be conflict among two people or groups to get this resource.The belief of division arises when there is a conflict of opinions, a fear of being separated from something good or rightfully one’s own, deterioration of meaning (which could be one’s identity or sense of belonging, physical well-being, mental health).

MBEddy instructs that we “always begin (our) treatment by allaying the fear of patients . And we handle fear by our growing confidence in understanding Love’s accurate, active and thorough power to annihilate anything unlike God, good. Love and Principle have all power. That means hatred, conflict, fear, doubt do not.

I found this quote helpful: “The greatest wrong is but a supposititious opposite of the highest right".

When I read about conflicts such as the Palestinian/Israeli one, I can replace the conflict, violence and hatred with the highest right of God’s governance. By not empowering evil, I open thought to affirm God’s power. I recognize that, right where conflict seems to be, there is the Christ, actively and persistently claiming victory. Truth always triumphs and Love never fails. And that is where I take my stand.







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