Peace in 2020 # 2
January 7, 2020
What will peace look like for 2020 for us as followers of Christ? Wars continue somewhere on almost every continent. Gangs, clans, blood feud, borders. Reasons vary. Will that change? I lean into Abraham Lincoln’s perspective in the Thanksgiving proclamation. The civil war was raging. Yet he spoke of God at work. ’In the midst of a civil war of unequalled magnitude and severity,’ fields were still productive and the population growing.
‘No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things’. He continues: ‘fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility and Union.
We can still pray this prayer for our country.