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Scripture
There is a future for the man of peace. Psalm 37:37

Observation
What is the opposite of peace? It is not war. War is a symptom of the other side but it is not the opposite of peace. The antithesis of peace is craving. The restless gnawing hunger of unfilled desires is what causes us to fight and struggle. War is the result of these unfilled desires.

The man of peace is a person who has a future. That must mean logically that a man of craving does not have a future.  Immediately he might grasp something, but in the long term he will come up empty.

A man of peace, on the other hand, has a future. His life is absent from craving. It isn’t that he has everything that he needs in life. He might be hungry. He may have debts. He may need a vacation. But he isn’t craving these things. He has found completeness from a contentment with God and God alone. He is aware that friendship is more valuable than possession.  God is enough.

Peace attracts more peace.

If a man of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; but if not, it will return to you. (Luke 10:6)

When we let the fullness of God come into our emptiness we become the rock in the desert that makes the sand dune grow. Peace gathers at our doorstep. This is why a person who has stopped craving prospers. It is safe for God to give to a person of peace, because the gifts will never replace the deepest human desire for relationship with God.

Application
I want to become a man of peace. My prayers are often pockmarked with desires instead of contentment in the Lord. “Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart.” (Psalm 37:4) By taking my attention off of the things I crave and becoming content in the abundance of God strangely my desires are fulfilled. That is a man of peace.

Prayer
Today, Lord, make me a man of peace. I let your peace in. Amen.