How's Your Peace-Maker Doing?

The story is told of a woman who in a conversation asked how a friends's "peacemaker"...no "pacemaker" was doing. After the slip of the tongue, she began to think about what she had said.

Truly, into the heart of every Christian, our Lord has implanted a "peacemaker", and the question is, "How is it doing?" Is it helping us overcome our bad tempers? Is it giving us a sweeter disposition? Or does it have long periods when it never functions? Are people within the church learning to be forgiving and accepting of one another? Could anyone tell, if he saw you at work, that you had a "peacemaker" implanted within you?

When we accepted Jesus Christ as our Savior and Lord, maybe we shorted out the wires so that the "peacemaker" would never work. If so, then life is running out for us fast. Anyone who puts on an exterior of piety, and does not seek to prove it through actions that back up his words, is no more than a hollow shell, and the life of the Savior is not in him.

Or, maybe we let the power go out of our "peacemaker" by failure to nurture the soul and cultivate the heart through worship and prayer. A phone call came to a certain church one day. The caller asked, "Is Rev. So and So preaching tomorrow?" The church secretary answered, "No, but we believe that God will be there, and that's good enough for us."

Get the power from the Source, and keep your "peacemaker" alive and strong. The slogan that says, "7 days without worship and prayer, makes one weak!" is absolutely true.

Because Christians have failed to respond to the implanting of God's Holy Spirit within them, the world grows increasingly evil; the Church grows increasingly weak; and the heart of the Savior bleeds again. Our society needs Christ in the heart, or peace in the world will never start.