Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Christ's Peace- Not the World's Peace

Joh 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.

Christ's PEACE is given to us. The world has it's own idea of peace and this world's peace isn't like Christ's peace.

We fool ourselves by saying peace is this state of mind we can possess- a calmness, a security, a comfort.  We hear things about 'world peace' and this is  an idea of everyone getting along- no fighting, no wars to disrupt people's lives. We imagine this world peace as being elusive and it is because it hasn't existed - ever. There have been ILLUSIONS of peaceful kingdoms throughout history, but they've never been WORLDWIDE, there was always some part of the world waiting in the wings wanting to try and take over for themselves. Today it's the same. We have several huge countries that get along on the surface only because we risk worldwide destruction if they don't.  A lot of smaller countries are at war right now. And even with some of the larger countries participating in wars they don't bring all their power into play because the other larger countries will want to step it and it just never ends.

World peace is a lovely concept but a misguided one. Our Savior did not come to bring us this sort of peace. 

Mat_10:34  Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.

Yet, our Savior DOES leave HIS peace with us, just NOT the peace of the world.

The peace our Savior leaves with us is to keep our hearts from being troubled and afraid.

Fear and being troubled - we all know what this is like.  Fear and being troubled in a world of war on so many fronts, we need the peace only our Savior can give us. Peace of the surety of eternal life through HIM and HIS LOVE.  The peace of ETERNAL LIFE.  The peace of this NOT being our home.  The peace of the heart, of the mind because our hearts and minds belong to Christ!

By HIS grace may we have HIS PEACE!

Please, Father, in the name of Your Son, we would know YOUR PEACE.



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