While the world cries "Peace, Peace", they believe their confusion and sweet naïveté. We are promised tribulation is this world, and when we trust Jesus as our Saviour, we are also promised a peace that surpasses all understanding.
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 (John 16:33)
And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:7)
One of Jesus' tiles, is Prince of Peace: study notes quoted here are from my Bible
1. His work reconciles sinners into harmony with God and each other
2. He is the peaceful ruler over those who have known only conflict with God, others, and themselves
The secular amongst us rely heavily on human heroes to swoop in and save the day. This is an echo from the past, when the Israelites wanted an earthly king to rule over them, just as their heathen neighbours had. They denied deity in favour of a hedonistic model of living life on planet earth, and by doing so, they effectively, wiped out for themselves, what is heavenly and beyond imagination.
God didn't go away, the people stopped up their ears, turned their gaze elsewhere, and followed their hearts: translation, they followed the lust of their besmirched desires.
When we consider Christ as the Prince of Peace, we see the impossibility of reconciling ourselves with worldly systems. He warned us that we would experience trials and tribulation, and isn't is so, dear one? Is this not truer than true, for me and you? Did it start in 2020? I think not: you have struggled for much longer than this, when relating to your spouse, your in-laws, your employer, your mother, father, sister, brother, neighbour, and friends. It is in the nature of humanity, to long for and commit to intimate relationships that require effort to stay harmonized, and even then, we find ourselves out of synch with one another.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men (Romans 12:18)
While the world turns, it's people spin one way while God watches and waits for us to "get it". I think of my friend Christine and her chocolate Labrador as a reminder of what we must be like as the heavenly host witness our shenanigans from above. Christine caught on video, her dog's rather rambunctious chasing of a squirrel. She had opened her front door, called out to Harlow to come in, and the dog came tearing around the corner of the house, went directly after a squirrel, did a quick about face to run to her owner, and all the while Christine calmly watched and then said "Are you done yet?"
Are you done with believing wicked men that blatantly display signs and symbols of their commitment to Lucifer as their king, will suddenly change their ways and become noble in their intentions and begin to "rule" with integrity?
Are you done with believing that peace will be ours, if the masses continue to chant it, minus turning to the Prince of Peace as our soul/sole provider of a calm that is at odds with the storm all around us?
Are you done chasing a squirrel of distraction, believing that you can have what used to be ... by turning back to Egypt and longing for the onions and garlic, or fishy flesh you used to eat there?
The Bible delineates for us, what time we are in, Matthew 24:3-15
And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.
Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come. When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
All the would be political heroes are dying as we figuratively speak, in this writing. They are fading weeds with withering roots, and yet humans look to them and their "influence" to rescue them from what Jesus the Saviour of the world, The Father of eternity, told us would come to pass. They, the ones that promise they will make things better, are pretend saviours with god complexes.
I call squirrel 🐿, dear one!
I will end on this note, dear reader ... Don't be a nut
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