The Gospel of Peace with God
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We began our consideration of Isaiah’s final title for the coming Messiah as Prince of Peace with the captain on a TV show expressing his frustration with an attorney’s request to do the right thing. His problem? The right thing means different things to different people!
 
The same can be said about the word peace. The peace Paul had in mind at the end of Eph 6:15 (your feet sandaled with readiness for the gospel of peace.) is the good news that Jesus had made peace with God possible.
 
That peace came at a great cost. Jesus had to shed His blood and die on a cross to make reconciliation with the holy Godhead possible for any of us. The entire chapter of Hebrews 8 explains the magnitude of what Jesus had accomplished. How Hebrews 13:5 is now possible. The New Covenant He established had permanently made a way for us to be reconciled with God.A peace far greater than any horizontal peace with mankind.
 
As we close the door on 2025, thanking the Lord for all He enabled us to accomplish this year, the good, bad or tragic, if nothing else from yesterday sticks let it be this: Let Paul’s closing charge to Archippus in Col 4:17 encourage you to be bold, blameless and blessed in 2026.