There is a lot of talk about peace.
We think about the situation in the Middle East, Israel, Palestine, Iraq and Syria to mention just a few.
But closer to home, in fact, your home and mine, we often are without peace. The word peace is used 429 times in the Bible. The Hebrew word for peace is shalom. Most people don’t even know what peace, true peace is.
For some of us peace is the absence of trouble and the death of our enemies.
The word peace in its truest sense is, ‘wholeness, completeness’. True peace is rare. But I have seen it in some of the most unexpected places. Years ago I visited a young mommy of three small children.
She was in the final stages of cancer. I was asked by a friend of the family to visit her in the Johannesburg General Hospital to pray for her. As I walked into the ward and introduced myself I could sense peace.
The woman thanked me for my visit, but requested that I do not pray for her healing. Shocked I asked why. She told me that she had completed her preparations to leave this world. It wasn’t fake, it wasn’t artificial. She had peace like I had never witnessed.
Can I ask you a really important question, “Do you have peace?” Jesus said, “My peace I give to you”.
