Yearning for Peace

BALTIMORE, Maryland August 24, 2015 - Many people believe that peace can only come, and then take hold, if mankind acts as one and lays down all of its weapons.  The thinking is that we are by nature a militaristic species bent on destruction in all of its forms.  Only if we renounce the substance of what we are can we actually change.  I do not accept any of that.  As a Christian, it is clear to me that the Lord has clearly showed us a way of life that will provide eternal peace and happiness.  We were created in the very image of God.  We are challenged to live our lives in a way that reflects our creator.  If we live our lives in the manner spelled out in the Gospels of Christ, we will achieve our goals of a just and peaceful society. 

"I was reading a review of the movie “Joyeux Noel,” a French-made movie about an actual incident that took place on Christmas Eve during World War I.  The incident was a truce that broke out spontaneously along the horrid fronts between the respective combatants.  The truce was not arranged by diplomats or even generals; it was arranged by soldiers in the trenches.  The words below were sung, supposedly by a German soldier:
"Still through the cloven skies they come
with peaceful wings unfurled,
and still their heavenly music floats
o'er all the weary world;
above its sad and lowly plain
they bend on hovering wing,
and ever o'er its Babel-sounds
the blessed angels sing."
Yet with the woes of sin and strife
the world has suffered long;
beneath the heavenly hymn have rolled
two thousand years of wrong;
and warring humankind hears not
the tidings which they bring;
O hush the noise and cease your strife
and hear the angels sing!"
What beautiful and profound thoughts and hopes.  A lad by the name of Leonard Feisig wrote the review I was reading.  It was posted on Amazon in December, 2006.  Humans are imbued with a sanctity that is straight from the Lord.  With the power of the Holy Spirit, one can change his life and find a peace that is more powerful than all of the evil of the world combined. The Western World developed and grew as Christian.  There was a time, and it was a long time, when the great universities in Europe had larger Schools of Theology than they did Academic Schools.  I continue to feel it is outrageous that things secular have overtaken our society and even our way of thinking.  It is to the point where Christian people are looked down on.  This, even though our greatest people and our greatest minds were Christian  How we got to the point in time would take months to properly analyze.  I do not need anytime to conclude that the move to secularism in our society and culture is not a good thing.  Christians yearn for peace and pray to the Lord to grant peace.  Dear God, grant peace to this world and those who live here.  Grant serenity to your people, and me..