Rev. Ray and Pat Amos

“He tried to be a peacemaker.” Acts 7:26 NLT

The plane tossed about like a kite in a storm. The crew had confidence but took nothing for granted. Many people depended on this mission, in fact it might save lives; its job was to fly into the eye of the hurricane and measure the strength of the storm. Painted on the side of the sky worn plane was a name, “PEACEMAKER.”

On this Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, we are reminded that American history has always known stormy times. Some of us remember well the folk song that asked, “Has anybody here seen my old friend Abraham (Martin and John), Can you tell me where he’s gone? He freed a lotta people, but it seems the good die young; but I just looked around and he’s gone.”

Peacemakers must go into the storm. Police officers know well that it is very dangerous to be called to a home where there is a domestic dispute. No soldier enters into battle casually. Even in the local church there are peacemakers that bear the scars and wounds that came from a saint turned furious.

There is no greater peacemaker than Jesus who is called “THE PRINCE of PEACE,” and there are no scars and wounds that go deeper than His. Our Lord has the only scars that will ever be visible in Heaven; all of ours will be no more.

I know that we may have to be peacemakers at times, and I know it can hurt. If that is where you might be today in your family, at work, or some other place; Please know that God knows, and be encouraged in the fact that He has given you a heart that cares. Jesus said that a peacemaker is blessed, and shall be called a child of God.

“Didn’t you love the things that they stood for?
Didn’t they try to find some good for you and me?”

Grace and Peace, Rev. Ray (1/21/2019)