Advent Day 10: Confrontation

Love confronts us when we let it.

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It confronts our selfishness, pride, and hate.

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And it’s good that love confronts us.

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Because it’s good to remember that the meek will inherit the earth.

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It’s good to remember that the peacemakers are blessed in the economy of the God.

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But that doesn’t make it easy.

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Being confronted usually puts us on the defensive. We have a natural aversion to being corrected.

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Jesus was confrontational, but only when necessary, and typically only to those in places of power, (specifically to those who abused that power).

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Advent invites us to take an honest look at ourselves— to take inventory of the good, the bad, and the ugly— and to confront those things in ourselves.

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So let’s lay our guard down and let this confrontation serve as an invitation to a better way.