Perfect Peace

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A stone-mason had fallen from his scaffold and was fatally hurt.. In the hospital where he was carried he was approached by a Christian who said to him: "My friend, I hear that there is no hope for you. You will soon be in eternity. Have you made peace with God?”
"Peace with God?" echoed the dying man.
A smile of transcendent beauty glorified his pain-wracked face as he continued:
"Two thousand years ago JESUS, the Lord of glory, took my place as a lost, guilty sinner before God, and on Calvary's cross He died for me—HE IS MY PEACE.”
A mind at "perfect peace" with God:
Oh, what a word is this!
A sinner reconciled through blood:
This, this indeed is peace!
By nature and by practice far,
How very far from God!
Yet now by grace brought nigh to
Him Through faith in Jesus' blood.
"Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." Rom. 5:11Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: (Romans 5:1).