Peace by John Norton Loughborough

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jan 13, 1914

Peace

By John Norton Loughborough

OUR heavenly Father is styled “the God of peace.” Heb. 13: 20. His Son is the “Prince of peace.” Isa. 9: 6. Seated on His Father’s throne, “the counsel of peace shall be between Them both.” Zech. 6: 13. We are told, “Acquaint now thyself with Him [God], and be at peace” (Job 22: 21), and, “Let him take hold of My strength, that he may make peace with Me; and he shall make peace with Me.” Isa. 27: 5. Of the wicked it is said: “The wicked are like the troubled sea, when it can not rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.” Isa. 57: 20, 21.

The apostle Peter admonished, “He that will love life, and see good days, . . . let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.” 1 Peter 3: 10, 11. Paul informs us that “to be spiritually minded is life and peace.” Rom. 8: 6. Again he says, “As much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.” Rom. 12: 18. And in order to accomplish this, he said, “Follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.” Rom. 14: 19. And to the Hebrews he said, “Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord.” Heb. 12: 14. J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.