Peace With God - All The LORD is near Daily Devotionals for 2024

The word which God sent to the children of Israel, preaching peace through Jesus Christ—He is Lord of all.
Acts 10:36

Peace With God
One of the most momentous questions which can be put to a human being is this: "Have you peace with God?" It is a question of deepest solemnity, and it claims a direct and immediate answer from every heart. There is no reason why any truly anxious soul should continue for one moment without settled peace with God. Christ has made peace by the blood of His cross. God is preaching peace by Jesus Christ, and here we have the solid foundation of the believer's peace: Christ's finished work received on the authority of God's Word by the power of the Holy Spirit.

This is the divine basis of peace. The more simply we build thereon, the more solid our peace will be. The reason why so many are in a state of miserable uncertainty is because they do not rest in absolute faith on God's foundation. They are occupied with themselves instead of building exclusively on Christ. They are looking to experience rather than to a risen Savior. Feelings and attainments engage them instead of Christ. They are vainly hoping to find some sort of improvement in themselves, and not finding it to their satisfaction, for what honest soul ever does? They are filled with gloomy doubts. The heart is oppressed with anxious fear and the spirit is overcast with heavy clouds. They have no divine certainty, so they try to find comfort in the exercises of a religious life.

Neither in our inward feelings and experiences, nor in our outward exercises—of whatsoever kind these may be—have we the true ground of our peace in the divine presence. God did not send to the children of Israel, nor does He now send to us, peace by spiritual experiences or by religious exercises, but simply by Jesus Christ.

C. H. Mackintosh