July 8
Peace. Such an elusive commodity. World peace. Inner peace. Absence of turmoil and strife and the stress they produce are virtually impossible to achieve. But we try. Uneasy co-existence with people of divergent points of view is attempted between nations and among individuals.
Peace treaties are signed which are often worth little more than the paper they’re written on. Feigned regard is extended between people who really don’t hold one another in esteem. The subterfuge is perpetuated and the uneasy truce conceals cunning schemes and machinations of war.
Yet the Prince of Peace (see Isaiah 9:6,7) has come. He is called, “Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father. The government has been placed upon His shoulder,” and in fact, the Word tells us that the kingdom He established shall not only increase but it shall never end! How do we reconcile the discrepancy we see between the promise of peace and the existence of strife?
We receive the promise when we grasp the truth of its spiritual nature. Isaiah 26:3 tells us that God will, “…keep him in perfect peace whose mind is steadfastly upon Him, for he trusts.” The one who trusts the Living God is not tossed about by winds of adversity and conflict. The believer in Christ is not undone by the duplicity of people or by “wars and rumors of war” (Luke 21:9) for his hope is in the Prince of Peace.
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