Make me a channel of your peace. Remember that song? What the
world needs now is love sweet love. Remember that one?
The world is in desperate need for both of those things –
peace and love. Those are the two blessings often wished on each other as we
end letters or say our goodbyes. As has often been said, peace is not the
absence of war – it is something more pervasive than that. True peace, shalom,
penetrates to the inner self and radiates out affecting all those around us.
Love is not the absence of hate. It is active, demonstrable, positive and
strong and has the power to dispel negative feelings and overcome antagonism
and even hatred.
God is the source of peace and love and he pours it out on
us through his grace. We don’t deserve such gifts as he gives and yet he
continues to lavish us with his blessings.
Someone said to me yesterday that every day is a good day
when you are not pushing them up but admiring them. A riddle easily solved.
Daisies of course.
So today is a good day. A day when I can give myself to God
to become a channel of his peace and love, not because I am good but because he
is full of grace and mercy.
You’ve got to be careful what or who you allow to use you as
a channel. You are always safe with God. And what the world needs now - is Jesus.
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