13Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. 14But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. 15This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 16For where envying and strife is , there is confusion and every evil work. 17But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. 18And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
This portion of my reading today just really spoke to me. The word conversation in the KJV bible is actually more like lifestyle. People will know you are wise or spiritual by how you live your life. Envying and strife bring about confusion and other bad things, but if you are living in the wisdom from God you'll have good fruits. I want to become a person that is pure, peaceable, gentle, easy to get along with, full of mercy and good fruits. I don't want to be partial and I certainly, with all my heart, don't want to be a hypocrite. If you make peace, you'll sow peace!
God bless, Jo
