We have so many ways that we can confuse what Jesus means by peace, especially the peace we talk about during the season of Advent.
Sometimes we think it's about trying to make every moment of the holiday season perfect. As if every present wrapped just right and every cookie decorated with the most detail will make everything else going on in our lives stop. But this isn't the peace of God. The abiding peace that Christ left us. Instead, it's just a fake veneer that will quickly crumble and leave us disillusioned.
Other times we think that peace means that we will no longer have struggles and suffering. Instead of working for perfection, we think that peace brings perfection. But that's not what the prophets Isaiah or Zechariah were talking about either.
Instead, the peace of God comes right here and now in knowing that we are submitting to the call of God in our lives. And in the future it means that peace will reign in a way that totally changes the world. If we are honest, we aren't at the second part of that statement yet. But as we submit ourselves here and now, we pray for it. We hope for it. We work for it.
We make space for it. For the peace of God.
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