Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant. Hebrews 13:20
How do we know that the Allah who Muslims worship is not the same as the God Who we worship? The God Who we worship is the God of peace. Allah is not. Don’t believe the lies that Islam is a religion of peace. It is not. It is difficult to imagine how anyone can read the so-called holy writings of Islam and say that Islam is a religion of peace. Those writings are dripping with demands for bloodshed, the slaughter of all who would stand in the way of Islam, the killing by whatever means of all who refuse to acknowledge that Allah is God and that Mohammed is his prophet. It is difficult to imagine how anyone can read of the bloodthirsty antics of Islamic radicals and say that Islam is a religion of peace. Their attacks on innocent people, their slaughter of prisoners, especially Christian prisoners, show nothing of peace, compassion, or caring about anything except the promotion of their violent religion. But there is a God of peace. He is the God identified in the Bible. He is our God. And He confers His great peace upon us.
Our participation in the peace of God is possible because of the work of the Lord Jesus: ‘But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ, for He is our peace’ (Ephesians 2:13,14). Peace with God was not something that we pursued, or even desired. But it is ours because God pursued it, desired it, and achieved it by the offering of His son for us on the cross of Calvary. ‘Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ’ (Romans5:1).
If the God we worship is the God of peace, we as His children will be the children of peace. Because we have peace with God, we will have peace with other Christians. We will not display, or even feel, any animosity toward other Christians. We will not dispute with them nor clash with them. If they should not be inclined toward peace with us, we will not reciprocate any of their animosity. We must be at peace with each other in the Lord. And we must also be at peace with those around us. If we are living for the Lord as we should be, we will draw the animosity of the world that will hate us because they hate Christ. But we are not to respond with anything but love and peaceful intentions. It is how the Prince of Peace would respond, how He did respond when He was among us.
The best way for us to be identified as the followers of the God of peace is to be at peace. -Jim MacIntosh