THE PEACE OF THE SPIRIT!

Saturday, December 7, 2019

THE PEACE OF THE SPIRIT!

Prov 21:31

31 The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the LORD.

           On Christmas Eve 1941, just seventeen days after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, FDR addressed the nation on the radio. Winston Churchill had made a surprise trip to Washington, D.C. and joined him. Below is an excerpt from Churchill’s speech.

“This is a strange Christmas Eve.  Almost the whole world is locked in deadly struggle, and, with the most terrible weapons which science can devise, the nations advance upon each other.  Ill would it be for us this Christmastide if we were not sure that no greed for the land or wealth of any other people, no vulgar ambition, no morbid lust for material gain at the expense of others, had led us to the field.  Here, in the midst of war, raging and roaring over all the lands and seas, creeping nearer to our hearts and homes, here, amid all the tumult, we have tonight the peace of the spirit in each cottage home and in every generous heart.”

           Seventy-eight years ago, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor plunged America into an already raging world war. And we remember that Churchill was exactly right when he said that our peace comes from the “Spirit” of our God. A horse was the Old Testament symbol of armed conflict. It was, as Churchill put it, “the most terrible weapon which science can devise.” Yet the horse is an insufficient defense against evil and a poor refuge for safety. No! Our safety is in the Lord.

Prov 18:10

10 The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.

Dear Lord, today we have no hope of safety but in you. Thank you for your peace. AMEN