F.E. Marsh :: 300. Peace

GRACE, mercy, and peace are the trio of Gospel blessings. Grace is love planning to bless, mercy is love acting, and peace is love enjoyed.

P Purchased Peace.

There are many who talk about “making their peace with God.” This is an impossibility. Man can never make his peace with God; but there is something better, and that is, that Christ has made peace by the blood of His Cross. The purchase price of the peace of the Gospel is the blood of Christ (Col. 1:20).

E Embodied Peace.

“He is our Peace.” It is not merely something from Christ, but Christ Himself, who is the believer’s peace (Eph. 2:14). I remember an aged saint exclaiming to me once, “Oh, I wish I had peace!” I asked her, “Have you Christ?” “Oh, yes!” she replied. “Then you have got peace, because you have Christ, for ‘He is our Peace.’” If we sever blessing from Christ we shall never enjoy blessing, but if we see that we have every blessing in Christ (Eph. 1:3), and that Christ is every blessing, then we have blessing.

A Abiding Peace.

“My peace I give unto you” (John 14:27) is Christ’s gift to His people. Whatever Christ gives must be like Himself, enduring and unfailing, for He is “the same yesterday, today, and for ever” (Heb. 13:8). The things of this world pass away (1 John 2:17), but the things of the world to come are like the words of Christ (Matt. 24:35), they never pass away.

C Complete Peace.

The peace of God is perfect in its nature and perfect in its keeping (Isa. 26:3). Like a circle, it is complete in its character, and encircling in its embrace. To be complete in Christ (Col. 2:10) is to have a complete peace, because we are in a complete Saviour.

E Ennobling Peace.

When the Lord Jesus has said peace to the sin-sick soul (Luke 7:50), and when the peace of God rules in the heart (Col. 3:15), through being anxious for nothing, prayerful in everything, and thankful for anything (Phil. 4:6-7), then in the quietness and calmness which are begotten by the Holy Spirit (Rom. 15:13) the life shall be calm as a river (Isa. 66:12), and the peace of God shall play upon the face (Acts 6:15).