“Holy in Peace”

 Hebrews 12:14

Try to live in peace with everyone, and seek to

live a clean and holy life, for those who are not

holy will not see the Lord.  (NLT)

     Trying to live peacefully with a world that has never known peace is a difficult task to perform, even for the most peace-loving people.  Being asked to live in peace with a world filled with angry people is a hard pill to swallow for even the most kind and loving person there is.  And trying to live a righteous life in the midst of all kinds of evil is a very dangerous mission, because we not only live in a world that hates the very Name of Jesus Christ, but it also hates anyone or anything that is associated with Him .  We live in a world blinded from knowing the Truth about who the Living God is—a world that denies His deity and Truth  so they can continue living in the darkness of their sinful pleasures.  It is a difficult challenge to live in the Light of God's Truth, and it cannot be done successfully without the power of the Holy Spirit dwelling within us and surrounding us with His protection, wisdom, and strength.  It takes the Power of God to pull this off, and pull it off we must, because the Lord commissions us to live in the Light so the world will see and know that the Lord is God, that we belong to Him, and His will will be done.

     If God's children are to defend the absolute Truth that the Lord God is sovereign, righteous, and in control of this out of control world, we must know who we are fighting for, who we are fighting against and why we are fighting in the first place.  We must be fully vested in God's Plan for man and we must stand steadfast and faithfully in the face of evil that surrounds us everyday—a mission that requires the infinite Power of God backing us up.  Every living soul needs the only Savior this world has.  Every breathing person needs Jesus, because without Him, there can be no peace.  Without the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as the foundation for your life, the dark and evil powers from the depths of Hell will swallow you up in a heart beat and forever separate you from the glory of God!

                                               A Whisper of Hope

 You can do anything, My child...when you do it in Me.  I Am the Lord your God and with Me you can escape your bondage to sin and defeat the power of death.  With Me there is peace and godliness.  When you live in Me there is eternal life with Me.

2 Timothy 1:9

It is God who saved us and chose us to live a holy life.  He did this not because

we deserved it, but because that was His plan long before the world began—to

show His love and kindness to us through Christ Jesus.  (NLT)

                           Turn away from evil and do good.  

          Work hard at living in peace with others.

                                         (Psalm 34:14)