Good listening is particularly important for a peacemaker. It improves your ability to understand others, it shows that you realize you do not have all the answers, and it tells the other person that you value his or her thoughts and opinions. Even if you cannot agree with everything others say or do, your willingness to listen demonstrates respect and shows that you are trying to understand their perspective.
Ken Sande

Warning To The Scorner

Warning To The Scorner

Gem #86 – Warning to the Scorner

Rest well assured, O Scorner, that your laughs cannot alter truth, your ridicule cannot avert your inevitable doom. Though in your foolishness you should make an alliance with death, and sign a covenant with hell–yet swift justice will overtake you, and strong vengeance will strike you down. In vain do you jeer and mock, for eternal truths are mightier than your twisted lies, nor can your sly sayings alter divine truth of a single word of this volume of Revelation. Oh! why do you quarrel with your best friend, and illtreat you only refuge? There yet remains hope, even for the scorner. Hope in a Savior’s veins. Hope in the Father’s mercy. Hope in the Holy Spirit’s supreme means.