Alphabet of Love - P is for Peace

And they heal the brokenness of the daughter of My people superficially,

Saying, ‘Peace, peace’, but there is no peace Jeremiah 8:11

Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. Matthew 10:34

Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful. John 14:27

These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world. John 16:33

There is peace… and, then, there is Peace.  

There is peace at all cost.  At the price of being intimidated into silence.  At the threat of submission to supreme authority. The band-aid peace over the deeply festering wound of animosity and hate. The peace treaties and the peace accords. The whitewash plaster on the crumbling wall. 

There are also soft words and false promises.  The peace of charades. The peace that soothes the cancer patient into negation and denial of reality.  The peace that says,

Everything is fine and nothing is broken.

The peace that sounds so good we desperately want to believe the deception, the lies.

The outcome of the surgery declared successful, while patient lies dead. 

And, then, there is violent peace of the crucified Prince of Peace.  The Peace purchased for us with the blood of Christ… for nothing else would suffice.  The Peace that sees and knows the worst truth about me and you,  and says,

I have already paid the full price for all this and more. You have no clue what you are doing. I don’t condemn you.  Go in peace.  And sin no more.

You can’t have peace and Peace. The two are mutually exclusive. Sooner or later, we all will have to chose.  What will it be?

(they) say to the prophets, 
'You must not prophesy to us what is right,

Speak to us pleasant words,

Prophesy illusions'. Isaiah 30:10,11

Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Romans 5:1

For He Himself is our peace, who made both groups into one and broke down the barrier of the dividing wall, by abolishing in His flesh the enmity, which is the Law of commandments contained in ordinances, so that in Himself He might make the two into one new man, thus establishing peace, and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, by it having put to death the enmity. And He came and preached peace to you who were far away, and peace to those who were near  Ephesians 2:14-17