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Peace with God is a priceless blessing; peace apart from God is a Satanic delusion. That the latter exists is clear from the Lord’s own words: “When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace” (Luke 11:21).
Satan is the “strong man”; the world is his “palace”; you are among his “goods” if you are not one of God’s children; “in peace” describes your state if you have never yet been awakened by the Spirit of God to see your lost condition as a guilty sinner. Forgetful of the sins of the past, heedless of the calls of the gospel to repent and turn to God in the present, and oblivious to the certainty of eternal judgment in the future, you carelessly pass along.
No fear of God is before your eyes by day, as you do your own will and take your own pleasure; no conscience pangs disturb you at night. Unawakened, unblessed, unsaved, unconverted, the slave of sin, you move along “in peace,” and Satan will do his best to prevent that peace being disturbed.
But don’t forget, this peace is false. It is founded in sin, fostered by the devil, finds its sphere in the world, and has no link with God. I would not have your peace for ten thousand worlds!
Peace with God, on the contrary, is true, because it is divine in its nature and source. It is the blessed portion of every believer in Jesus. The reason is simple. On the cross, Jesus, our blessed substitute, bore all the judgment of God against our sins. He “who knew no sin” was “made ... sin for us.” God’s claims were all met in righteousness. The result is thus stated: “Having made peace through the blood of His cross” (Colossians 1:20); “the God of peace... brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant” (Hebrews 13:20).
The first moment the risen Saviour gets among His own, He says, “Peace be unto you” (John 20:19). Ascended now to the right hand of God, it is positively declared that “He is our peace” (Ephesians 2:14). God’s Word is now “preaching peace by Jesus Christ,” and the believing sinner can say in truth, “Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ” (Romans 5:1).
Which peace is yours? Are you still uncertain and wanting to have God’s peace? Your wish, and mine for you, as well as the way these wishes are to be realized, is given in the following sweet words of the Apostle Paul: “Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing [notice the way], that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost” (Romans 15:13).
“Acquaint now thyself with Him and be at peace” (Job 22:21).