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A World Without Peace and through His Spirit, the very source
There are few things in this world that of peace (Gal 5:22). Father, Son and Holy
people want more than peace. Yet hu- Spirit are united in their desire for us to
know true peace.
manity seems unable to attain it in any
lasting way. Even as I write this article, A World Full of Walls
news is breaking about yet another long-
simmering conflict that has erupted into But this world hasn’t known real peace
open war. The great peacemaking institu- since the garden of Eden. The countless
tions of our time are powerless to deliver walls that men have built throughout
on their promise of true and lasting peace. history stand as silent witnesses to that
They censure and sanction. They pass fact. Even today, they continue to build
resolutions and mediate negotiations. and maintain walls as buffers between
They intervene politically and, at times, hostile nations and neighbors. Those walls
militarily. But ultimately, they fail to se- create the illusion of harmony because
cure lasting global peace. everything seems calm on either side. But
Why is it that men cry, “Peace, peace,” all they really do is keep the hostile parties
but there is no peace? It’s because today, apart. If both sides were truly at peace,
just as in Jeremiah’s day, society treats then there would be no need for walls.
the wounds of this world as though they The same thing is true spiritually. When
were only superficial (Jer 6:14). They see we experience God’s peace, the walls are
only the outward symptoms of conflict taken away.
and unrest. They refuse to acknowledge From the moment of our birth, we were
that the problem runs far deeper – all the at enmity with God because of sin. Yet
way down into man’s soul. The reason while we were still enemies, He reconciled
we have no peace in this world, or in our us to Himself through the death of His Son
hearts, is because of sin. The hostility that (Rom 5:10). In Ephesians 2 we see how
exists between nations (and neighbors!) Christ brings us into that peace by remov-
is only a symptom of the real problem: ing the two great walls that stand between
our rebellion against God. Until we are at God and man (2:1-10), and between Jew
peace with Him, we will never know true and Gentile (2:11-18).
peace with one another.
Thankfully, our God is “the God of Peace With God (Eph 2:1-10)
peace.” Scripture calls Him that five times. The first barrier that He removed was
He longs for all mankind to be brought our sin, which separated us from God.
into a harmonious relationship with Before we were saved, we were dead
Himself and with one another. That’s why in our trespasses and sins, living under
He designed a plan to accomplish this Satan’s control and subject to God’s righ-
through His Son, “the Prince of Peace,” teous wrath (vv1-3). But God was rich in

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