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TRUE HAPPINESS IN CHRIST: BE PEACEMAKERS
WEDNESDAY, JULY 12
2 Corinthians 5:12-21

Matthew 5:9

 

“Blessed are the peacemakers:
for they shall be called the

children of God.”

 

TRUE HAPPINESS IN CHRIST: BE PEACEMAKERS
 
The seventh blessing is for “the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.” Through the Beatitudes of our Lord Jesus, we see the proper steps of our Christian life: Knowing our spiritual poverty, mourning over our sins in repentance, humbly receiving God’s salvation in Christ, being born again and thirsting for God and His righteousness, growing up in His Word, showing mercy to others, being sanctified and now serving the Lord as peacemakers. Many are serving the Lord without going through the earlier steps. Not having been born again nor sanctified, they can never be true peacemakers, but are troublemakers!
 
The term peacemakers appears only once in the Bible, in Matthew 5:9 and it carries the meaning of the one who has received the peace of God in his own heart and then brings peace to others. He is not simply the one who makes peace between two parties or two people, but the one who spreads the good news of peace or the Gospel of peace which he has experienced. Are we peacemakers? Do we have the peace of God in our hearts and share with others the Gospel of peace which we have experienced? This is the ministry God has given to His children. We are in the world, but we are not of the world, and we have the King’s business to do, to bring people back to God Himself (2 Cor 5:20).
 
To be peacemakers, we must be first reconciled to God and have the peace of God in our submissive hearts. There should be no conflicts between God’s will and our will. If we can say that God’s will be done in all things, then we truly have the peace of God in our heart.
 
To bring peace to others, we are to be humble and meek enough to live in peace with them; and as ambassadors of Christ, we share His gospel of peace with others, let them know that God loves them and has sent His Son Jesus to die for them and to rise again to save them. Constrained by Christ’s love, we beseech them to be reconciled to God.
 
THOUGHT: (Read Romans 10:15.)

PRAYER: Father, let me have Thy peace and be Thy peacemaker.

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