Have you peace with God? How is it to be obtained? By faith in the Son of God. Man is God’s enemy, but God is not man’s enemy. Thus God, in infinite grace, peace having been made by the blood of the cross of His own dear Son (Col. 1:20), now preaches peace to all through Him. (Eph. 2:17).
Dost thou believe on the Son of God? Can you, in the presence of Him who is the Searcher of hearts, honestly reply, “I do”? Then you are included in the precious words of Rom. 4, 5, “Who was delivered for our offenses, and was raised again for our justification. Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” Romans 5:1.
He is our peace.
“The wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. There is
no peace,
saith my God, to the wicked.” Isaiah 57:20, 21.
Many reform (outwardly, not inwardly); turn over new leaves (and blot them immediately), make good resolutions (and break them almost as soon as made), and cry, “Peace, peace; when there is no peace” (Jer. 6:14). This is Satan’s snare,
false peace.
Others believe in the Savior, but make their final arrival in glory depend upon their clinging to Him, sticking to it, enduring, working on; and thus, being self-occupied, and adding self to Christ, they never get beyond a
partial peace.
But the believer, who ceases from his own righteousness, and utterly mistrusting self, takes God at His word, and rests on the finished work of Christ, knows and enjoys
true peace with God.