TRUE PEACE--FROM WHAT SOURCE?

"[Jehovah] is making wars to cease to the extremity of the earth." -PSALM 46:9. 

"THE work of the true righteous must become  peace; and the service of of the true righteousness, quietness, and  security to time indefinite. And my people must dwell in a peaceful abiding place and in residence of full confidence and in undisturbed resting-places." (Isaiah 32:17, 18)  What a beautiful promise!  It is a promise of true peace brought about by God.

What, though, is true peace?  Is it simply the absence of war?  Or is it merely a period  during which nations prepare for the next war? Is true peace just a dream?  Those are questions to which we need reliable answers.  First, true peace is much more than a dream.  God's promised peace goes far beyond anything that this world can imagine.  (Isaiah 64:4) it is not peace for a few years or a few decades. It endures forever!  And it is not pace just for the privileged few-it embraces heaven and earth, angels and humans.  It reaches  out to people of all nations, ethnic groups, languages, and colors. It knows no frontier, no barriers, no failures. -Psalm 72:7, 8; Isaiah 48:18. 

True peace means peace every day. It means that you wake up each morning without a thought of war, without having to worry about your future, even your grandchildren's future. It means complete peace of m ind.  (Colossians 3:15) It means no more crime, no more violence, no more families torn apart, no more homeless people, no more people starving or freezing, and no more despair and frustration.  Better still, God's peace means a world without sickness, pain, sorrow,  or death.  (Revelation 21:4) What a magnificent hope we have of enjoying true peace forever!  Is not this the kind of peace and happiness that all of us yearn for? Is not this the kind of peace that we  should pray and work for? 

Next time: TRUE PEACE --FROM WHAT SOURCE? -Mankind's Failed Efforts

From the Watchtower magazine, 1997