Piece of Peace

As a rule, we are working fewer hours, earning extra money, and enjoying more freedom. Further, today, we have an endless range of fun events for pleasure. Also, we have better jobs, and many new appealing job titles. For example, office workers who before were just filing clerks, are now “Junior Office Administrators” with responsibility for records integrity.
Our senior citizens and children are better cared for, in a network of government -sponsored social programs. Women have well-deserved liberation, and are leaving their footprints in every facet of life. Schools are teaching more. The kids are indeed smarter. There is no real doubt about that. You dare not challenge a 9-year old child, in the workings of the newer technologies. Moreover, you cannot out-text our junior school students on the new smart phones.
Likewise, on the spiritual or church level, we never had it so great. There is an overabundance of church organizations, and appealing church buildings. TV, the Internet, and satellites, pump religious programs (or shows if you prefer), within most homes in the western world. At present, church groups are working to saturate eastern and Middle Eastern regions.
In comparison with these developments, personal relations are in the doldrums, to put it in mild tones. Everywhere around us, there are alarming rates of murders, rapes, assaults, robberies, infidelity, family-crashes, divorces, depression, and every class of war. National and global conflicts are setting new records, although for the worse.
And so if you have a tuned ear, and if you are listening, you will hear a deafening, persistent, piercing cry. It is the cry for peace. And it echoes through the entire world. Everywhere, people are begging for peace. Children in the streets, plagued by gang violence, are crying, “We want peace.” World leaders at the United Nations are pleading, “Let us work for peace in the world.” Relatives, dealing with domestic violence, are demanding peace with one another. The whole world is screaming for peace.
Further, families are spending millions in counseling. Yet peace remains an elusive shadow to them. Churches (as part of the sow-a seed, and get-rich-quick agenda) sell many programs on peace. Yet conflicts, splits, and sinful behavior abound in popular church groups.
Governments hire the best brains in foreign affairs. They send many skilled, learned, and tested diplomats around the world. Still skirmishes and full-scale wars abound. Therefore, many nations, including poor countries, which cannot feed their starving people, spend billions on armies and weapons, just in case. “We want peace.” That cry echoes from every part of society, and multiple regions of the world. We hear it in differing forms. “Peace, Oh Dear God, give us peace!”
WHAT IS PEACE?
Webster dictionary describes peace as “a state of quiet or tranquility; freedom from disturbance or agitation: calm; repose. Specifically, absence or cessation of war.”
In the normal sense of speaking, peace relates to external induced pleasantries and serenity. This peace comes because “peaceful circumstances” exist.
However, there exists a superior peace, which is independent of outward circumstances. Do you understand the properties of peace that arises from within? Such peace influences a person’s response to the external state of affairs, which may be horrible.
This peace, which surpasses the external environment-induced peace, is the peace we shall examine. This inner peace is a display of favor from God. In Psalm 29: 11 (NAS version) we find, “The LORD will give strength to His people; The LORD will bless His people with peace.” My Dear Friend, grab this truth and hold it with a firm grip. True peace is a blessing. It is not a sensation you enjoy, because you hold or can access stuff. Recall this truth often. Pure Peace is a gift from the Almighty. It is a gift, although a “conditional gift”.
With this insight, and using the working definition cited, here is a potent bombshell that ought to excite you instantly. You can gain full access to this gift. The access is available, despite your current personal circumstances. This access is within your reach, in spite of the mistakes of your past. Further, and perhaps here is the real shocker: not only is the peace within your reach; God wishes you would enjoy it. Besides, God demands no extra financial offering. We have just one rule to satisfy.
(My Friend, come let me show you, how you can bring this real wonderful peace, into your life, right now)