“From the least to the greatest,The Nobel Peace Prize seems to me to be one of the most worthless things in the world. it has been given to person after person, and still there is war.
their lives are ruled by greed.
From prophets to priests,
they are all frauds.
They offer superficial treatments
for my people’s mortal wound.
They give assurances of peace
when there is no peace. (Jeremiah 6:13-15)
And not only that, there will always be war.
In the 1960’sand 70’s peace was the rallying cry. I wore a peace sign and flashed the V peace sign everywhere I could. Performers protested for peace, riots broke out in the name of peace, people sang about peace, dreamed of peace, imagined world peace.
And still the world fought.
The problem is that peace will not be realized in our lifetimes. It is not something you broker, or imagine, or strain real hard to get. Peace is internal. And if it doesn’t come from inside, it will not come no matter how often people talk about it.
The wars in the Middle East go back to the conflict between Isaac and Ishmael, two of Abraham’s sons. The hatred between the two groups has always been and always will be.
In our own lives and our own culture, there has always been fighting and always will be. Peace will not come until we all become children of God obeying him.
And even then, it may not.
In the book of Philippians, one of the most upbeat books in the Bible, written to a good church with a lot of positive things in it, there is a plea by the apostle Paul that two women quit fighting. Even though the church is going good, still there is war inside it.
Calling peace, declaring peace, mandating peace will not work. Peace has to come from inside or it is worthless, a sham.
It can only come through giving yourself to God. Anyone who tries to get it any other way will be doomed to failure.
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