Peacemakers

9 Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they will be called children of God.
Matthew 5:8




Pastor Mike Moses gave an awesome sermon this Christmas Eve that was all about how to find peace in the turbulent times in which we live. The basic premise of his message was that peace can be found in the midst of any storm that comes your way as long as you are living your life under the direction and control of God’s Spirit who lives inside of all who believe in and call Jesus their Lord and Savior. There is something supernatural that happens when you submit to the call of God on your life, no matter what that call is or what He may be asking you to bear or no matter what He may be asking you to do or where He may be asking you to go as He will never ask you to endure anything without giving you all of the power that you will need to complete the task and to finish well, and to reflect his peace upon a lost world who is watching in amazement as you live your life for the King. Paula and I have just taken our home off of the market after having it for sale for well over a year in hopes of moving to uptown Charlotte. Over the holiday we have decided to stay here on Lake Norman, despite our crabby neighbors and long commute into the office. We really feel like for whatever reason that God would want us to stay right here and that He will give us the strength and the power to be a light to our neighbors and to make life work right here where we are. This decision would not be our first choice, however, since it is God’s choice, there is a peace that I have about this decision that can’t be explained and that goes much deeper than any superficial peace that I could muster up myself. I am excited about the journey that God has us on and I am so thankful for His strength and for His peace that fills in for my inadequacies and somehow makes me whole. I now pray that God would enable us to reflect this same peace of His to others in such a way that they would see and know that He is God. Live under the direction and control of your Savior today and you will find the peace that your heart is longing for and you too will be called a child of God as you reflect His peace to a world around you which is crying out for the love that Jesus gives!