I listen to it all, and then I say to them, Yes, you've got a problem.

They report all the terrible things the other person has done and all the reasons they are justified in being so angry. Usually they are upset, troubled, discouraged, or angry. Many people come to me with various problems involving conflict. So the place to start, the origin of peace, is the settling of any problems between you and Jesus Christ. But you never can do it on any other basis. If you have His peace, then you can start solving the conflict around you. He says peace is a Person, and in order for you to live at peace with someone else, you must be at peace with the Person of Christ. God never starts there He starts with the person. The problem with most of us is that we want to start by clearing up only the results of conflict. 'What Paul is saying is that in order to live at peace, you must have peace. And when Christ Jesus makes peace-between individuals or between nations-that peace will be a satisfying, permanent, and genuine peace. The secret of oneness is a Person: he himself is our peace. Then it breaks out all over again, because nothing is ever settled.Р”В«ut here the apostle tells us the secret of peace. It is only a weariness with warfare, an agreement to stop it for awhile until we can all recuperate and rearm. This is why what we call peace among nations never lasts-because it isn't really peace. And invariably it results in a new outbreak, with all the previous animosity surging to the surface once again. If you merely agree not to fight, it is not peace. You have made peace on superficial terms and have found it only external. Anything else is superficial and temporary and highly unsatisfactory.

It is not merely the cessation of hostility, the absence of conflict it means being one. Paul starts with a definition of what true peace really is. If you are having a conflict with anybody, this is the way of peace: For he himself is our peace, who has made the two one.

He is our radiant one