On My Heart: Peace

It's what

we're all looking for, longing for.

In a world of conflict, and unrest,

it seems illusive, nowhere in sight.

The world is "groaning, burdened

and broken by vertical, and

horizontal conflict". Peace seems to

"be a distant and delusional hope".

(Paul David Tripp)

Where is the peace we long for?

Is it found in right government,

or in the right leaders? Can we

manufacture true peace with the

right laws and the correct formulas?

"God had a solution. It would not be

a negotiation. It would not be a call

to action. it would not be a strategy

for peace. No, God's solution would

come in the gift of His Son."

(Paul David Tripp)

Peace came in the form of a Person.

This is the good news of the gospel.

"And peace with God is the only road

to lasting peace with one another."

(Paul David Tripp)

Lord, how we long for peace in our

world, in our land. May it start

with Peace in our hearts.

(Sharing thoughts as I am reading through an amazing devotional book, New Morning Mercies by Paul David Tripp. I highly recommend this book which has a one-page reading for every day of the year.)

Credit: Photo by Aaron Burden