THE PEACE OF A CHILD OF GOD
               "...Let your peace come upon it..." Matthew 10:13
                                   Edward Proffitt, Th.D.

 

A goal set by me in ministry over the years has been taken from
the sermon on the mount. In that sermon Jesus tells us "Blessed
are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of
God" (Matthew 10:13). There are many Christian attributes that
are easy and pleasant, yet the role of a peacemaker is one that
is of much difficult.

 

t would be great being effective in stopping wars, teen gangs,
drug pushing, abuse and crime.  It would be majestic to stop
hurting in marriages and homes, squabbles in churches and quiet
reckless minds. Many, who would live to be a peacemaker, have
found it to be evasive.

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We seem to get a little taste of it at Christmas and Easter,
and then it fades quickly.  Distaste, dislike, and disgust
quickly crowds out the friendliness into breakdown.  Distress
of the soul for peace is more apparent today than in any
previous generation. Inner strife is not being silenced with
exotic living and dramatic lifestyles

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How often do you heard the cry "Oh, if I could only have a
little bit of peace"? Sheer absence of conflict is not peace.
Peace is stronger than a fighting force. Superior condition
may remove outward resistance, but that does not spell peace.
The defeated may feel humiliation and a sense of overthrow,
but there is the soul.

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Peace involves the soul. Real soul peace can be found in the
unblemished accomplishment of one Man, "peace I leave
with you, my peace I give unto you" (John 14:27). Billions of
dollars and hours are spent on world peace with little effect.
That should tell us how hard it is to accomplish peace within
self.

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There are habits that refuse to let go, passions that
deny to yield, fears that reject silencing.  One thing God
will not do is force peace upon our lives.  He simply asks
for us to make peace with Him.

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The Cross justifies every claim Make peace, be the person God
wants you to be, then live in peace daily. That takes making a
decision! With the decision comes a marvelous inner peace.
There's a poem titled: "kept in Perfect Peace"  Stanza 4 says:
O mighty Mast of the sea, Thou art my Master, too!
Thou, all things, unto Thyself = Art able to subdue --
Thou keepest me "in perfect peace".  (T.O. Chisholm)

 

 

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