“Wishing you Peace at Christmas Time,” is written on one Christmas card we received this year. The card is beautiful.

What is PEACE?

We are reading in Romans 3:23:

” …, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, …”

THE RESULT OF GOD LOOKING UPON US IN GRACE IS PEACE.

What is grace? Grace means favour we don’t deserve.

What does God’s grace give us? 

1.  God’s grace gives us peace with God.

“Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God.” (Romans 5:1) Because  of what God has done for us in his grace, we are no longer his enemies.

2.  The grace of God does not only give us peace with God, it gives us inward peace. Inward peace follows after peace with God. (Philippians 4:7) 

This inward peace is not hindered by the struggles of the world. (John 14:27 and John 16:33) 

3.  After that  has happened, we are led to a state of peace with other people.

Part of the  purpose for which the Lord Jesus Christ died was to make peace between man and man (Ephesians 2)

4.  But that is not all. The Bible tells us that to all that  ‘the peace of God’ is added.

The grace of God leads us to the peace with God, inward peace, peace with our neighbours and to ‘the peace of God’.

What is peace? The New Testament was written in Greek. When we are reading the word ‘peace’ in our Bibles we must think about the word ‘union”. That is the root meaning of the Greek word. We were separated from God, but now we are united. We were enemies of God, but now we are reconciled.