Peace With God

 Greetings to you all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ,

     Romans 5:1-2 says, “Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:  By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.”

     Let me take a moment to thank those of you who rescinded and then prayed for my condition, whatever it was.  Still a lot of pain in the left leg but the fever is gone and no more chills that seem to rattle my bones.  Got  my brains tickled with a Q-Tip and that was a negative report for covid which was thankful for that.  If there is a “normal” then maybe I am getting close to it  now.  Our group of seniors are reading through the Book of Romans which is interesting in itself as we all have something in our lives that is weak such as eyes, voice, memory and such things.  I get excited with the Book of Romans as there is so much there in doctrine for every believer.  I chose the first two verses of Chapter 5 because of the phrase, “peace with God.”

     Prepositions are really important as you can have peace with jGod and you can have the peace of God.  In this passage it deals with the soul having peace with God.  Actually you can’t have the peace of God, until you peace with God.  Those souls that are unbelievers are at enmity with God and heading for a terrible judgment.  The only thing that will keep them from that judgment is to have peace with God.  God is omnipotent, that is powerful and as such, the Most Powerful Being in the universes.  He created the universe and he created the ants. God has all of the universe at His disposal and can use anything He desires to move nations in and out of existence.  Nothing surprises Him nor is He ever caught off guard.  His plan cannot be stopped.  Pal reminds us that us believers are  justified by faith and so we have this wonderful peace with God and notice where it comes from.  It goes on to say, through our Lord Jesus Christ.There are many false preachers around in the world today that say that there are many ways to heaven and that Jesus Christ is only one way.   The mass of people want to believe that error as it gives them more choices for salvation, but they all lead to an eternal separation from God adn to put it bluntly, Hell.  When Jesus said that He is the way to the Father and that no  one can get  to the Father except through Him, then that is what it means.   Believers then have the peace with God and certainly then they will have the peace of God many times in their lives in the midst of death, grief, sickness, sorrow, depression and so on.    Praise God today for the blessing of having Peace with Him.