Originally posted on Facebook on Friday, September 19, 2025.

The hardest part of working through conflict is resisting my flesh, and to not let it poison the process. It wants to win, hurt and destroy but that's the spirit of the destroyer.

I see so many holes I could exploit, opportunities to box them in, attacks they cannot come back from.

But what good is a sense of superiority sitting alone on the ash heap of my victory?

My flesh responds, "I won't be alone though—my fury is reserved for my enemies." But the wisdom of God through Jesus Christ teaches hell never says enough, for those ruled by this spirit eventually everything burns. (Proverbs 27:20, 30:15-16)

"But [a Samaritan village] did not receive [Jesus], because His face was set for the journey to Jerusalem.

And when His disciples James and John saw this, they said, 'Lord, do You want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them, just as Elijah did?'

But He turned and rebuked them, and said, 'You do not know what manner of spirit you are of. For the Son of Man did not come to destroy men’s lives but to save them.' And they went to another village."
— Luke 9:53-56

Lord, I lack wisdom. Teach me to put to death the flesh and seek to be reconciled rather than right, producing life rather than death. (Romans 8:13) Amen.

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