Throughout the world people are calling for peace and no doubt the Christmas message given by world leaders this year, will again hold out some hope that peace might come and hostility might cease.
My prayers however, tend to be focused more locally on those who live in a private world of self-destruction and chaos, and for whom peace is just a word that means nothing to them.
Some of you who read this may think I’m just being dramatic, but there are so many whose lives have been disenfranchised by circumstances, people who live in fear of brutal partnerships, lost and lonely people who are so sad at their seemingly anonymous existence.
Peace, for these dear people is something they only see happen in feel good movies, but not in the real world where they live.
So it seems a foreign notion to hear Christians speak about inward peace, but that does not negate the reality that it does come with Christ. In my own life, when Jesus sorted me out inside, peace followed and it has never left me, and I suspect that is equally true for others.
“Peace I leave you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.”
John 14:27
Hi Ray just want to thank you for the advent series.