Victory Through Surrender!
"So Gideon
built an altar there
to the Lord, and called it
The-Lord-Is-Peace."
Judges 6: 24
It’s hard to watch images of war, captured by
photojournalists, broadcast daily on the news.
George Washington said, “My first wish is to
see this plague of mankind, war, banished
from the earth.” Sadly, it has yet to be
banished.
There is one war, however, that we can win by
surrendering—the rebellion of the human heart
against God. Prior to our salvation, we were
enemies of God.
But when we realize He is just and good—a God of
righteousness and mercy—and when we surrender
our lives to Him, we’re filled with peace transcending
understanding. We have peace with God.
The Lord Himself is our peace. If
you are
fighting against God and His marvelous
grace, surrender to Him today.
The Bible says, “Since then it is by faith that we are justified,
let us grasp the fact that we have peace with God through our
Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have
confidently entered in
to this new relationship of grace, and here we take our stand”
(Romans 5:1). The Lord is peace!
"It is a paradox. I can’t explain it, but
you are never so much your own self
as when you are most
His."
E. Stanley Jones
