Ordain Peace for Us

Isaiah

{26:12} LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us.
{26:13} O LORD our God, [other] lords besides thee have had dominion over us: [but] by thee only will we make mention of thy name.
{26:14} [They are] dead, they shall not live; [they are] deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.
{26:15} Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed [it] far [unto] all the ends of the earth.
{26:16} LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer [when] thy chastening [was] upon them.
{26:17} Like as a woman with child, [that] draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, [and] crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD.
{26:18} We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

Ordain peace for us.

There's something special there isn't there. Ordain peace.

We are meant to have peace ultimately, peace is ordained for us. Could there be a better future? Peace. How many people have very little peace in their lives. Maybe not everyone has a life of turmoil but we sort of expect various things to go wrong to interfer with the peace we really want. A good day is a day that goes by without any upsets, right?

Peace. We try to take vacations from our everyday life seeking some peace. Ultimately we will have peace because it has been ordained for us. We won't have it here and now...

John

{14:27} Peace I leave with
you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give
I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be
afraid.

{16:33} These
things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have
peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good
cheer; I have overcome the world.

In the world we will have tribulation.
Through Jesus we will have peace...it's ordained.

People throughout time have had those they called lord- rulers, masters, leaders they've put in place of God and yet they all die they are human and death takes them. 'They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.'

There is no lord but God, our Lord and Savior!

{26:17} Like as a woman with child, [that] draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, [and] crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD.
{26:18} We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

A woman in labor. Pain, crying, travailing...we cry out and for all our crying out we have nothing to show for it. All our crying, screaming, and flailing about and in the end it'll be for nothing. We can't bring about salvation from our own efforts. No matter how painful our efforts are, no matter how hard we try to bring about our salvation all our hard work, all our pain to obtain it will be for nothing if we count on ourselves for deliverance. Only Christ can save us. We can't save ourselves. We can't bring about the end of days. We can't bring an end to this world or the evil that dwells within it. We can't bring low any man, not really, not as God can. God will prevail and it is through God we have salvation and only through God. Of our ownselves we are nothing and when we fuss and bother about our own good works, about our own trials and tribulations, hardships we've endured we are fussing for no reason. All our lives mean little, all that we go through is nothing compared to what Christ endured. We like to imagine that what we suffer is enough to make us deserve salvation, and yet nothing we do, nothing we suffer will ever have us deserving of anything but death for our sins. Yes, we go through horrible hardships, we go through horrors we can't imagine we can survive, we go through day to day life struggling to survive and yet it is only grasping hold of Christ that will mean a thing. Fairness has nothing to do with any of it, it is hope and trust, faith, belief in Christ and salvation through Him and Him only.

May the Lord help us to understand that we need Christ and Christ only in our lives. Our hope in Christ has to be foremost beyond anything else. We need to cry out.. Lord I believe! Help my unbelief! We believe in Him and Salvation through Him and no other. By grace are we saved.

Please Lord Your will be done in our lives now and forever! By Your mercy and grace!

Amen.