Proverbs 16:7 - FINDING PEACE.
Proverbs 16:7 (NKJV) When a man's ways
please the LORD, He makes even his enemies to be at
peace with him.
INTRODUCTION
We want other people to like us, and
sometimes we will do almost anything to win their
approval. But God tells us to put our energy into
pleasing him instead. Our effort to be peacemakers
will usually make us more attractive to those
around us, even our enemies. But even if it
doesn't, we haven't lost anything. We are still
pleasing God, the only one who truly matters. [Life
Application SB]
COMMENTARY PEARL
Where Is Peace?
I know men who would write a check for a
million dollars if they could find peace. Millions
are searching for it. But, as we look around, we
find that there is little personal, domestic,
social, economic, or political peace anywhere. Why?
Because we all have the seeds of destruction within
us.
Peace can be experienced only when we
have received divine pardon - when we have been
reconciled to God and when we have harmony within, with
our fellow man, and especially with God. Through
the blood of the cross, Christ has made peace
with God for us and is Himself our peace. If by
faith we accept Him, we are justified by God and
can realize the inner serenity that can come to
man through no other means. When Christ enters
our hearts, we are freed of that haunting sense
of sin. Cleansed of all feeling of
contamination and unfitness, we can lift up our heads
secure in the knowledge that we can look with
confidence into the face of our fellow men.
Have you ever searched for peace in the
wrong place? [Peace for Each Day by Billy Graham]
LINKS FOR FURTHER STUDY
John 14:27 - Peace Like No Other.
http://www.abible.com/devotions/2022/20220723-0834.html
Galatians 5:22, 23 - The Fruit of the Spirit.
http://www.abible.com/devotions/2022/20220628-0910.html
LINKS WORTH CHECKING OUT
https://abible.com/links/