Real Peace

Peace is a difficult thing. It's kind of like humility. Evasive. Once you think you have it, you don't. It's hard not to think of peace selfishly. We trust ourselves to be abe to discern between what is true peace and what just feels "right" to us because everything's going our way...

On the world stage, peace is even more evasive. Oh, we can have a semblance of peace as long as we are fine with people being oppressed. It seems that the worlds' kind of peace comes at the expense of justice. As long as the oppressed don't revolt, peace can be "experienced".
But if justice is being done on the planet, it is not a peaceful place.

Yet Jesus left us with real peace. The Spirit IS peace. John writes Jesus words:

I give you peace, the kind of peace that only I can give. It isn't like the peace that this world can give. So don't be worried or afraid.

The ultimate "peace, out".