Manna in the Morning

Almost every edition of the newspaper that you can pick up will have various references to a “lack of peace in the world.” We hear about war in Libya... we’re still fighting in Afghanistan... the Middle East continues to strive for some semblance of peace... the people of Japan are unsettled... even in our own country and sometimes within our own families there is a lack of harmony. Was Longfellow right when he penned the words, “There is no peace on earth I said”? Jesus once said to His followers, “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” (John 16:33) J. Oswald Sanders wrote: “Peace is not the absence of conflict from life, but the ability to cope with it. Peace is not the absence of trouble, but the presence of God.” To be sure the world hungers for peace and it will never come because (apologies to the country song) they are “looking for peace in all the wrong places!” There is only one sure place to find peace and that is in Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace. Claim the peace and share it with others today!