Certain aspects of Christianity go along better with each other than we may think.
In this text we have to sets of pairs, and in each set we have one supposedly weak or soft trait, and one that is considered stronger. We have to remember that the Christian life is all-or-nothing. We cannot chose which characteristics we want to exemplify while neglecting the others. For me the difficult pair has been righteousness and peace.
There have been times in my life that I have been so concerned about being righteous, that I completely neglected the concept of having peace. A big reason for that conflict is that I was being self-righteous, and being that way hardly ever brings true peace. So as we go through our Christian experience, we should ask God to help us grow in every area of our lives and not simply the ones that we prefer.
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