THE picture in the front of our paper this week gives us a view of a Polish village many years ago. We see the wealthy driving by, and the poor beggar by the side of the road holding out his hat to get them to give him some money. Now we know from the reports that the conditions are much worse now than they were at that time, and many of the people are starving. Such is the terrible result of war.
How true the Scripture is, “The way of peace have they not known.” Rom. 3:11What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? (Romans 3:1); Man has gone according to his own thoughts, and he has made this world terrible place to live in, but if he had only cared to go according to God’s Word, what peace and happiness would have been his.
The Lord Jesus said,
“PEACE I LEAVE WITH YOU, MY PEACE I GIVE UNTO YOU.”
The peace He has left to us is in connection with our sins, and the judgment that we have deserved from God for those sins He has made peace by the blood of His cross. Peace fills the believers heart, and there is no further fear of having to meet God.
He gives us His peace. No circumstance ever disturbed Him. He, as man, accepted all from God the Father’s hand, and He wants all those who have put their trust in Him for the salvation, if their souls, to take all things from His hand, and they shall know His peace. The man of the world knows nothing of it, and he will not come to the Lord Jesus that He might have peace.
ML-12/05/1920