to guide our feet into the path of peace

- from Luke 1:79

We have been given just enough light and told to walk. The Prince of Peace will lead us into the path of peace.

This way is the way to the best and healthiest you. This way is the way to the best and healthiest world. This way will lead you toward peace.

When we think about peace, we often think of an inner emotional state. Restful. Quiet. Calm.

But the biblical picture of peace is much bigger than our inner worlds. Peace (the Hebrew word is “shalom”) involves everything in right relationship with everything else. Order. Harmony. Wholeness.

In our passage today, peace is pictured as a path, not just a destination. The path of peace could lead us through dangers and troubles, worries and wants, hazards and hard places. It might take a great deal of strength and perhaps some significant battles to walk this path of peace.

We’re reminded of this quote from JRR Tolkien: “It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”

But through it all, we’ll have peace. And as we follow and imitate our great Guide, we’ll also be instruments of His peace, bringing wholeness to a fractured and dis-ordered world.

What path is the Lord leading you along today? What does peace look like along this path? How can you be an agent of his peace as you walk along?

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