Abundance of Peace

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 21, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 46.

"Abundance of Peace"

THE "peace which passeth understanding," which God gives here, which is "as a river" in its onward flow, is but the foretaste of the peace which Jesus Christ will give to His own. While He gives peace now in the midst of the world's unrest and strife and war, that peace is mingled with sadness of heart because of others' unrest, misery, and wo. But there is coming a time when Christ shall reign, when all of strife, and war, and tumult, and mourning, and distress, and pain, and death, will be forever banished, because sin is no more. All tyranny, oppression, and wickedness will be blotted from the universe, and nothing shall mar God's fair creation. Jesus Christ, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, will have taken to Himself His great power, and reigned "from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth." Then, "in His days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth." It is to this peace now and forevermore that God calls us by His grace.