Day 6: For peace with God
Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand (Romans 5:1-2).
“But, now, when the new-born King made his appearance, the swaddling band with which He was wrapped up was the white flag of peace. That manger was the place where the treaty was signed, whereby warfare should be stopped between man’s conscience and himself, man’s conscience and his God.
It was then, that day, the trumpet blew—’Sheathe the sword, oh man, sheathe the sword, oh conscience, for God is now at peace with man, and man at peace with God.’
Do you not feel, my brethren, that the gospel of God is peace to man? Where else can peace be found but in the message of Jesus?”
~ C.H. Spurgeon ~
The gospel bells ring joyfully
Across the land, across the sea,
Now soft and low, now loud and strong,
They chant to us a happy song.
Refrain:
Ring out, glad bells,
How joyfully your music tells
The blessed story of the free,
Of peace and joy and liberty.
The gospel bells in music tell
The story that we love so well,
Of “peace on earth, goodwill to men”:
Ring out, sweet bells, ring out again.
Ring out until the truth is heard,
That Jesus gave His life, His word,
To ransom all, both you and me—
Oh, blessed, blessed victory.
Ring out, glad gospel bells, again,
Repeat the everlasting strain,
Till, all redeemed on yonder shore,
We sing “goodwill” forevermore.
~ Opal F. Brookover ~ pub. 1907
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