The past few weeks have been hard ones for this nation and the world. People have been killed by bullets and bombs. Hatred and violence have erupted again and again.
I haven’t known what to say in response. Most of the time, I haven’t had any words, only a sense of sorrow and loss. Things are not as they should be. This is not peace.
But what is peace? Wayne Grudem defines it as bringing order out of chaos. I like the definition. It fits with how I approach art–art is a way to make sense of this world. It brings things together rather than separates them.
John Onwuchekwa’s statement relates to Grudem’s. He says, “Peace is not a ceasefire. It is calling one another family.” Peace unites us. It sees people–all people–as beautiful because they are made in the image of God. Peace brings us together; it makes order out of our chaos. It says we are family.
“When it came to the enmity between God and man, Jesus abolished it. He ended it – not just by making a truce or a cease-fire – but by reconciling two otherwise irreconcilable enemies. He did not bring God and man into mere tolerance of each other. He brought them into loving fellowship and everlasting https://swimthedeepend.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/big-words-of-the-christian-life-regeneration-part-1/.”
.https://swimthedeepend.wordpress.com/2014/12/03/the-provision-of-peace/
@Bernard Hampton So he did. God is amazing and incomprehensible.
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