How Is Peace Possible In This World? This is a question everyone must ask. Certainly peace seems to be impossible here. Yet the Word of God promises other things that seem impossible, as well as this. His Word has promised peace. It has also promised that there is no death, that resurrection must occur, and that rebirth is man's inheritance. The world you see cannot be the world God loves, and yet His Word assures us that He loves the world. God's Word has promised that peace is possible here, and what He promises can hardly be impossible.
But it is true that the world must be looked at differently,
if His promises are to be accepted. What the world is, is but a fact. You
cannot choose what this should be. But you can choose how you would see
it. Indeed, you must choose this.
Yet has God's Judgment on this distorted world
redeemed it and made it fit to welcome peace. And peace descends on it in
joyous answer. Peace now belongs here, because a Thought of God has
entered. What else but a Thought of God turns hell to Heaven merely by
being what it is? The earth bows down before its gracious Presence, and it
leans down in answer, to raise it up again. Now is the question different.
It is no longer, "Can peace be possible in this world?" but instead,
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