Youth Unleashed

Do We Really Want Peace?

It would seem that the thing this world longs for, better yet, searches for—the powerful demand it, the intellectual diagnose it—the tag word, that one thing that the world seems to need or want is PEACE.
Is that really what we need?  Maybe… but not in the way or in the form that they think.  The world… governments, leaders, radicals… they all define peace as a world without war.  A world where everyone gets along—a world with equality, without racism, without discrimination… A world of fair trade, equal bargaining, and universal tolerance…
Are these things good?  Maybe some in theory, but this type of peace—this type of world can never exist.  As long as there are human beings there will exist problems… there will exist hatred… there will exist inequality.   As long as human hearts are in the equation there will always be evil.  Is peace really what we are looking for???
Yes, I think so, but not in the way we tend to think… Peace can only be found; it can only come from God.  Humans cannot garner—cannot create peace… He is the Prince of Peace.  He is peace in its true form.  This world has no idea what peace is because true peace only comes from God.  Peace cannot be experienced outside of the grace of God.
Until this nation… until this world aligns itself under God, there will not exist a true peace that passes all understanding.  Oh God that you would turn hearts and give us the nations!

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