Peace in the In-Between - Devotion 4

Spiritual Peace 

Peace is fleeting. This will be a recurring theme throughout this book. Whether or not you have peace will depend on where you look for it.  

We all need to have physical peace. We long for mental peace. The reality is that the foundation of the peace that we are so desperate for is found in the spiritual peace that Jesus offers today to everyone on the face of the earth. Without spiritual peace, there can be no peace. The old adage rings true: Know Jesus, know peace; no Jesus, no peace. 

Ephesians 2:14-19 says, “For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility. And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near. For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God.”  

Jesus has made us one with God and has broken down the wall of hostility between us and God. He has abolished the law of commandments so that He could be the mediator between God and man. He has made a relationship with God possible! We have been reconciled to God through the cross, killing the hostility that existed between us and God. He came and preached to both the near and the far off, and now we have access in the Spirit to the Father! We have access! We have freedom! We are no longer strangers or aliens. We are fellow citizens of the household of God!  

You no longer have to be a slave to sin. You no longer have to be a stranger to God. You can be His son or daughter. You can be a child of the most high God!  

God came. He came to us, as one of us, as a baby that needed everything. When I think of the incarnation of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, I always remember what the Genie said in Disney’s “Aladdin,” “Phenomenal cosmic power, itty-bitty living space!” The One that created the universe humbled Himself so much that He became one of us. He came to save us from ourselves and from our sin.  

The lyrics to the song that you listened to or watched for the Advent reading come to mind. If you have not listened to that yet, click here. 

The dark night wakes
And glory breaks
The Child was born for us
Gloria 

We have been reconciled by the baby in the manger. He is the God who loved us enough to come down to us.  

Peace came down.