What Makes Peace? 5 – Excellence

Hello, mane is Christopher Dryden, I am a peacemaker.

A commitment to making peace is a commitment to joining God in the realisation of what He had seen in the beginning – that which is good being complete and being very good.

To a degree humanity has always pursued concepts of progress. History is encouraged to be read as us being better than we have been before and we aspire to be better still. Underneath that, however, there is the gnawing sense that for every technological advance there is little to reflect that on a moral level. Families still fall apart. Man’s depraved ways still comes to the surface. The basic character of man simply replaces one form of inhumanity for another. We cry against slavery in one form and we allow prevalent slavery to take place in another form. We fear violence on the one hand and we glorify it in the media on the other hand.

Going back to God, seeing the way He orders His world by the power of His Word, seeing Him show us the way to live through His Son of the earth shows us how committing to peace is a commitment to being exactly what God called us to be. We were created to excel – to work towards being all that He created us to be. What He created us to be was people who work together for peace. We look to have right relationships with God, right relationships inside. right relationships with others and right relationships with the created world. As long as we remain flawed creatures we will be in search of living in the light of the One who brings wholeness. That journey looks for us to grow more in knowing. Growing in knowing allows us to excel in those areas in which we are called.

Believers groan in anticipation of that which is to come. We do not rest on the laurels of yesterdays bridges we constructed. We do not become complacent because of the things we put in action. Our enthusiasm does not settle for what has been, we see the Kingdom come and will be done on earth as in heaven as something more than what we see. The priority of the Prince of Peace propels us onwards to more of the glory of God being revealed in our efforts to make peace.

So we excel, so we continue to seek God and the ways He looks for in us.

The peace we seek is not the peace the earth can promise us. It’s the peace that surpasses understanding. It’s the peace on earth through Jesus Christ. It’s the peace worth pursuing. It’s the peace worth experiencing. It’s the peace worth making for the world to see..

For His Name’s Sake

Shalom

C. L. J. Dryden