Peace - When?

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Peace, in a world that slew the Prince of Peace!
Can peace in such a world be ever won
By force of arms or by a pact of men,
However solemnly agreed upon?
Can human wisdom bid earth's conflict cease,
Or human plans its raging tumults quell
And usher in an era of true peace
And cause all men in harmony to dwell?
No; tasks like these are far beyond the power
Of mortal men. The world, for its release,
Must wait and watch, until shall come the hour
When rules the now rejected Prince of Peace.
When He shall reign supreme o'er lives of men,
The world will know true peace-and not
till then. E. S. Delaney
We find in John 14:2727Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. (John 14:27): "Peace I leave with you, My peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you." This is the legacy the Lord has left His people in this world while He has gone to the Father.
"Peace I leave with you." This is peace with God which Christ has made by the blood of His cross. "My peace I give unto you" is the peace He possessed as man walking down here on earth.
I have seen many who have peace with God, but I have never seen any who had made their peace with God, nor could anyone possibly do so under any circumstances. Nothing but the blood could make peace with God; and we read in Col. 1:2020And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven. (Colossians 1:20), Christ has "made peace through the blood of His cross."