Friday, December 18, 2009

GOD'S SHALOM

God will bring peace… When God decided to act in the fullness of time for redemption, God did not send down an announcement written on stone or paper. God did not stand aloof in the heavens, raining hellfire and damnation down on the heads of sinners. God acted and came in human form. In Bethlehem.

And if God chooses to fulfill promises by an incarnate Messiah, who is to say that God will not bring the promised peace, not by manipulating history at a distance but by acting today through persons and institutions of faith?…

When the day of God's shalom does dawn, may it be said that the Child of Bethlehem, the Prince of Peace, was alive and well in our shalom-bringing, peace-making lives -- even on the West Bank, even in all the other places where peace remains far more promise than fulfillment. For there, God's shalom awaits our trust, our hope, and our making of peace with one another as God has made peace with us in Jesus Christ.

-- John Indermark in Setting the Christmas Stage (Nashville, Tenn.: Upper Room Books. Used with permission.)


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