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Peace With God

“Behold the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; nor His ear heavy, that it cannot hear.” (Isaiah 59:1).

Adam separated himself and all of mankind from the peace of God by his original sin. By his one sinful act he destroyed the wonderful, daily fellowship he had with his Creator and ever since humanity has been trying to re-establish this relationship of peace with its Maker. We have been trying to blot out this curse from Adam’s sin against God. And, since we are separated from God we cannot automatically experience His healing peace. But, just as there is hopeless death in Adam, we can have salvation through Christ! (Read Romans 5: 12-18.)

Surely, our way of finding peace with God does not work! (Proverbs 14:12) says, “There is a way that seems right to man, but its end is the way of death.” We must admit that ever since Adam, we (humanity) have been trying to rise above our confusion, our sickness and our separation from our heavenly Father. God’s Word explains what we must do to regain our peace with Him. (Romans 5:1) explains “Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.”

When we accept the sacrifice of death Christ made for us on the cross we not only have peace with God, we have the peace of God. We are healed of our original sin when we accept His Son Jesus Christ and receive Him into our hearts. We can then come to Him in prayer asking Him to forgive us of our sins – we can then also ask for our healing. God wants us to be healed! Christ died for our sins and for our healing. Jesus Christ is the way to our peace with God.

Our confidence now established, we read how the apostle Paul asked, “What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?” He then answers his own question, “He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?”

We have peace with God because we have Jesus! Amen.

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