Here is last night's essay, I pray it encourages you.
Everything is ALL about man's relationship to God. He gives peace (reconciliation) that passes all understanding. Those without His peace perform war and horror and carnage. It is nothing new. It only upsets us because it is fresh.
Yet in Christ there are three words:Reconciliation:
For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.... Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade others. ... ll this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. (2 Corinthians 5:5, 11, 18-19).
Peace
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. (John 14:27)
Joy
Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. (Romans 2:12)
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The Atlantic: What ISIS Really Wants
As Challies said, "as we were transfixed by the horror of the Paris terror attacks last night, what is there to do but mourn the depravity of man. Denny Burk asks us to consider praying Psalm 10."
Arise Lord! Break the arm of the wicked man!
