The Peace of God | AdventAI

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 27, 1864

"The Peace of God"

INEXPLICABLE term; the fruit of obedience; the inestimable wealth of every believer; and although myriads have partaken of it, its blessedness is inexhaustible, being measured out "not as the world giveth." The failure of the fig-tree's blossoms, the unproductive field, and the cutting off the flock from the fold, neither the prospect of the earth's removal, the mountain's being carried into the sea, and the troubling of the waters thereof, attain unto its hight. It is a blood-bought inheritance for every believer; and art thou, O reader, an "heir of the kingdom," and not asserting your rights for its possession? Is not the glory of God, the honor of the Lord Jesus, and the brightness of thy crown, inseparably connected with it? If so, then rise to the fullness of that privilege which cost Gethsemane's prayers and Calvary's sufferings, and be not shorn of your power by Satan's subtlety. Deprived of this peace, your testimonies for Jesus are not as glowing and effective; your efforts to make ready "a people for his appearing" have no vitality, and are not irresistible. Seeing this, and knowing it by sad experience, resolve to be comfortless until perfectly reconciled by God's providences, and that peace is a sure accompaniment.