Category Archives: Peace

Submarine

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sub.jpgSEVERAL YEARS AGO a submarine was being tested and had to remain submerged for many hours…
When it returned to the harbor, the captain was asked, “How did the terrible storm last night affect you?” The officer looked at him in surprise and exclaimed, “Storm? We didn’t even know there was one.”
The sub had been so far beneath the surface that it had reached the area known to sailors as “the cushion of the sea.” Although the ocean may be whipped into huge waves by high winds, the waters below are never stirred.
THOUGHT: Even though the waves of the world surround us each day, as Christians, we remain calm and secure in the cushion of Jesus — He blesses us with peace.
(Psa 85:10) Mercy and truth have met together; Righteousness and peace have kissed.
(Psa 85:11) Truth shall spring out of the earth, And righteousness shall look down from heaven.
(Psa 85:12) Yes, the LORD will give what is good; And our land will yield its increase.
(Psa 85:13) Righteousness will go before Him, And shall make His footsteps our pathway. Glenn, Mercedes & Lauren Hitchcock, “Submarine Peace,” Thoughts For Today To Brighten Your Day”
KneEmail: “You will keep him in perfect peace, Whose mind is stayed on You,Because he trusts in You.” Isaiah 26.3
Bible reading for 06.06.11: John 16; 2 Chronicles 25-27
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Father

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john-julian2.jpgWHEN A MAN abdicates his calling as a father, the world suffers the effects…
Julian Lennon, son of the late Beatles pop idol John Lennon, is a classic example. In his early twenties, Julian made his musical debut with a best-selling album. Then, to everyone’s shock, he suddenly stopped recording altogether. Seven years later, when he finally released a second album, he talked with a reporter about struggling to find his calling.
Julian’s mother and father had divorced when he was five, and after that he saw his father, John, perhaps a dozen times. “He walked out the bloody door and was never around,” Julian snapped. “I’d admire him on TV–listen to his words and opinions. But for someone who was praised for peace and love and and wasn’t able to keep that at home, that’s hypocrisy.”
As the reporter notes, “Julian became a self-taught musician. His father never game him a music lesson.” In the son’s words, “We sat down once and maybe he played five chords–that was that… The only thing he ever taught me was how not to be a father.”
His hatred for his father blinded Julian Lennon to his own calling, and the world suffered the lost of his talent for seven years. Gordon Dalby, “THE PAST – Healing the Wounds,” The Transformation of a Man’s Heart, 59-60
KneEmail: “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.” Proverbs 22.16
Bible reading for 05.31.11: John 12.1-26; 2 Chronicles 13, 14
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Peace

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storm.jpg SOON AFTER THE Vietnam War ended, the American Art Institute opened a contest asking people to send their artistic rendition of the meaning of peace…
The institute received hundreds of paintings, most of them the kinds of things that typically depict calmness and tranquility. Many paintings were of pastoral scenes with green valleys, quiet streams, and blue skies. Others were of people together in quiet settings and embraces. Still others were obviously personal and descriptive of some experience. In all, the responses were overwhelming in their portrayal of the kind of peacefulness we all desire.
However, in the painting the American Art Institute chose, the artist had captured a raging storm so vividly that, looking as it, you could almost hear the thunder. In the center of the picture was an open field, and there, nearly lost in the darkness of the clouds, the artist had painted a tree bowing to the strong winds. And in that tree was a nest where a mother bird hovered over her young. The one-word caption: Peace.
That is the peace that “passes all understanding.” It is peace in the midst of the storm. Peace that comes with the cry, “Thy will, not mine, be done.” Peace born of assurance that we are not alone. Verdell Davis, “Peace Not as the World,” Let Me Grieve but not Forever, 66
KneEmail: “Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” John 14:27
Bible reading for 02.09.10: 1 Corinthians 13; Psalm 137-139

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Still

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cancer3.jpg WHEN THE X-RAY comes back and it doesn’t look good, remember…God is still faithful…
When you read that heart-breaking note from your mate, remember…God is still faithful.
When you hear the worst kind of news about one of your children, remember…God is still faithful.
He has not abandoned you, though you’re tempted to think He has. Charles Swindoll
KneEmail: “God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.” 1 Corinthians 1:9
Bible reading for 03.18.10: Mark 15:26-47; Deuteronomy 32-34
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Peace

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HO2.jpgON MARCH 10, 1974, Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda, who had been a Japanese lieutenant in the Philippines during World War II, became the last Japanese soldier to surrender…
The war ended in 1945, but Onoda hid in the jungles of the island of Lubang for almost three decades, sucessfully avoiding all efforts to find him.
The Japanese and Philippine authorities, aware of his presence, repeatedly broadcast reports of this war in the Japanese language and left Japanese newspapers on the beach where he could find them. But Onoda thought all these were ruses to lure him to surrender, so he continued his one-man war.
THOUGHT: Onoda’s situation is similar to that of the sinner’s condition before God. Christ’s death on the cross does not automatically bring him peace and save him anymore than the peace concluded between Japan and the Philippines brought peace to Onoda. Onoda had to believe that peace had been made, then he had to surrender and accept it. In a similar fashion today, Jesus makes peace available to us, but we can only enjoy it when we surrender to the Lord, and and then accept it in faith and obedience to the gospel (1 Corinthians 15:1-4; 2 Thessalonians 1:7-9; Hebrews 5:8-9).
KneEmail: “For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle way of separation, having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace.” Ephesians 2:14-15
Bible reading for 01.15.10: Matthew 10:21-42; Genesis 36-38
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