That, in fact, is part of the disruption of God’s peace: We blame-shift, judge, and find fault in others while we pardon ourselves. When we see such arrogant behavior in others, we are outraged. But in ourselves, it somehow seems like we are doing justice. We have been wronged and we are trying to make it right, by yelling, belittling, ignoring—by hating. Justice is essential to peace, and such biased judgments wreak havoc on our modern world. When we are quick to judge others rather than look at our own hearts, we are electing to live outside of the kingdom of heaven, and outside the kingdom
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