Daily Devotionals

Devotional: June 16th

"Being justified by faith, we have peace with God." - Romans 5:1.

We receive tidings of a treaty of peace between two nations lately belligerent. Anon, we receive intimations of another war possible. Rumors of wars never fail to agitate profoundly the general bosom of mankind. But there is a rumor of another war infinitely more dire than any, between man and his Maker. It is long since this war has broken out; for thousands of years it has been raging; and we see no signs of its immediate cessation. Men perceive not that all their other miseries proceed from this feud; they seem not aware that the cruelty of all other wars, the agony of all other scourges, are just scintillations from the battlefield where they and their Creator are arrayed against one another. Let this feud be healed, and there will be no need to entertain terror of this despot or of that; to build barricades, or lavish treasures on forts and men-of-war. Diplomacy is spending all its strength in vain, while it merely occupies itself with the differences between States. Holy alliances may exercise the spirit of war in one direction, but speedily it will reveal itself in another. There must be peace between man and his Creator; then, and then only, will the nations understand one another, and perceive that they have one common interest.

Blessed be God, we have a Peace-maker, who gave himself that man might be reconciled to God. His coming was the expression of God’s amity. The flag of truce is held out to the world. The friends of peace are running to and fro in the earth, informing men that by simple faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, their accumulated sins shall be done away; that they shall be held justified, and shall have the peace of God which passeth all understanding.

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