Peace, what is peace? a few years ago many people were looking for peace, and even today many people wish for world peace. Yet, why is this peace so allusive? What does God do about peace?
First God loves peace and wants it so bad that He was willing to die for it-
"Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ" -Rom 5:1
"For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separations having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace, and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity." - Eph 2:14-16
This is God's actions for us, however our actions remove that same peace...
Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members? You lust and you do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures." -James 4:1-3
Anything that we place before God, and desire more than Him, will steal our peace with Him. However, if we decide to follow His lead, and desire what He does, we will be given peace with Him.
what could be more important?
"The LORD bless you and keep you;
The LORD make His face shine upon you, and be gracious to you;
The LORD lift up His countenance upon you,
And give you peace." -Num 6:24-26
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