We see and hear it all the time, Jesus is peace, Jesus is love… but while reading through Matthew the other day I came to a couple of verses that had me stumped. This is something you probably won’t hear in church, and when I read this I was like Wow, these are words from Jesus himself in my bible printed in red…
Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household. He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.
Fellowship of the Mystery 