The Peace of God

Peace/Order is not typically considered an attribute of God. The peace of God comes from His infinite wisdom, knowledge, and power. It comes from His omnipresence, omnipotence, and omniscience. God is orchestrating outcomes all over the world in Billions of people’s lives, in real-time. All the while, He has been orchestrating in history the outcomes he has foreordained should come about. The destruction and rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem. The words of the profits in history brought together in perfection, culminating on the cross of Christ. Peace and order is God in sovereign control, inactive control moving through history working all things together for the righteous outcomes that he decreed in eternity past.

The definition of God’s Peace: “God’s peace means that in God’s being and, in His actions, He is separate from all confusion and disorder, yet He is continually active in innumerable well-ordered, fully controlled, simultaneous actions” (Systematic Theology, Grudem, page 202).

Why do I mention peace as an attribute if it is not traditionally considered an attribute of God?

“For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints” (1 Corinthians 14:33).

“May the God of peace be with you all. Amen,” (Romans 15;33).

“The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you” (Romans 16:20).

There are dozens of scriptures in both the old and new testaments that are used to describe God as the God of peace, this is why I chose to write about the attribute of peace.

This is a short blog this week if you are God’s elect you are in my prayer. If you don’t know if you are or not, you're still in my prayers. The words of Christ and my prayer for you,

“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).