Bible Verse of the Day Tuesday February 7th, 2023

Ephesians 6:23 Peace to the brothers and sisters, and love with faith from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Throughout Paul's writings, peace, love, and faith show up in unrestrained richness, but there is always a great blessing whenever they rest upon the hearts that journey through these messages from God. The peace of God is a generous endowment that is the foundation of all we are and will ever be. The peace allotted to all that believe and follow Christ Jesus is our priceless and valued measure because our Savior has left it for us (John 14:27).

The peace of God is not the peace that the world sees as peace; that would be the absence of hostility. The world cannot comprehend God's peace because the world views peace as a single dividing point, war, or peace. On the contrary, God's peace is an unchained and unbound benevolence that surrounds and encompasses all that follow the leading and direction of the Holy Spirit.

The amazing grace of God that bestows love on all who surrender themselves to His ways is far beyond the world's ability to fathom. God loved us so much that He sent His one and only Son to sacrifice his precious blood on the Cross to forgive our sins (Romans 5:8; John 3:16). The love of God is the power that binds all His children together in praise and worship of Him. Only God can combine peace and love to produce a faith that will propel us toward a life lived in step with our Lord and Savior, Christ Jesus. Faith and trust in God will provide us with the propulsion needed to carry out His will on our lives and bolster us when we must engage in the spiritual battles that will ultimately come our way.

Peace, love, and faith can only come from God our father through our Lord and Savior, Christ Jesus. All Born again saved believers that labor and grapple in the false hope that by some means they might achieve and acquire some advantage with God will always end in ineffectiveness. The love of God working in conjunction with our faith will provide for our every need that we cannot earn and most certainly do not deserve.

Dr. Tom Constable once wrote: Mutual love is the key to peace, and mutual love rests on a common faith. The ultimate source of all three essential qualities is God and Jesus Christ, united in perfect equality.