They will beat their sword into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore.
ISAIAH 2:4
Here is a true story I was not born in this year. So it is indeed a good new! The morning of December 7, 1941 began as any other morning did in the mountain village of Baguio city. Locals made their way to the old market where vendors sold chickens, rice, vegetables, and various handcraft made by the ifugaos then a few minutes after 7 Am, the sound of Japanese planes were heard as they flew in low over the village. Their engines droned as bombs fell from the planes at the entrance to the American air base. Only a few moments after that in a strike that was supposed to be simultaneous, Japanese planes also bombed Pearl Harbor, and the war in the pacific had begun.
Lately I've been pondering what took place on December 7, 1941in relationship to our world today and what is happening in the 21st century. While everything has changed. It seem to me that nothing has really changed. Wars continue. We have merely raised the stakes in conflict.
With every conflict there are peace activist s crying for the cessation of conflict something my heart yearn for, yet I am soberly reminded that Jesus said, "You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, buy see to it that you not alarmed.
Such things must happen, but the end is still to come" (Matthew 24:6). The escalation of the conflict carries us towards that eventful day when God shall degree, "Enough! " and send His Son who will come as Prince of Peace and establish His Kingdom. My hope for Peace lies in Him who said, "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you (John 14:27).
Take heart in the great prophecy of Isaiah who said, " For us a child is born.. And he will be called. . .Prince of Peace " (Isaiah 9:6).
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