Week Two - Day Six
Supreme Peace
Reading Ephesians 2:14-18 for my devotional, Colossians 1:19-20 immediately sprung into my mind. “For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.” The Lord Jesus Christ who is supreme over all things has brought peace to us. This is a supreme peace that surpasses all other sources of peace found on earth. This is a peace mediated with the one true God through Jesus Christ. As Paul writes in Romans 8:1-2, “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.” We have peace with God through Christ Jesus! Oh, thank God, because I could not achieve redemption or reconciliation with God on my own. God is too holy, and I am all too sinful. What hope would I have without Christ? Considering such things, I languish as David did, flooding my bed with tears, “Be gracious to me, O Lord, for my bones are troubled. My soul also is greatly troubled. But you, O Lord – how long?”
How long? Now. As the prophet Isaiah wrote, “In a time of favor I have answered you; in a day of salvation I have helped you; I will keep you and give you as a covenant to the people, to establish the land, to apportion the desolate heritages...” Jesus is that covenant to us. I have peace in Jesus, and in the assurance of His promises. We are united together in Christ as children of this great promise, and the promise has been made manifest in Christ. Now we can have peace in the assurance of our salvation through the completed person and work of Jesus Christ. Considering this, my languishing ceases, for He is our peace.