{"id":53,"date":"2010-03-26T18:27:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T22:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/?p=53"},"modified":"2010-03-26T11:30:48","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T15:30:48","slug":"peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/2010\/03\/26\/peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up this morning to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidteems.com\/sitemap.htm\" target=\"_blank\">David Teems<\/a> on my iPod, singing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidteems.com\/heisour.htm\" target=\"_blank\">He Is Our Peace<\/a>.\u00a0 It brought to mind a phrase I have read, twice now, in Isaiah.\u00a0 In chapter 48:22 we read &#8220;There is no peace,&#8221; says the LORD, &#8220;for the wicked.&#8221; and again in 57:21 &#8220;There is no peace,&#8221; says my God, &#8220;for the wicked.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Aren&#8217;t you glad that Paul said in his letter to the church in Ephesus &#8220;But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the  blood of Christ. <strong>For he  himself is our peace<\/strong>, who has made us both one and has  broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of  hostility by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he  might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making  peace, and might  reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing  the hostility. <sup id=\"en-ESV-29230\"> <\/sup>And he  came and preached peace to you who were far  off and peace to those who were near.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As the bumper sticker so aptly puts it &#8211; &#8220;No God, no peace.\u00a0 Know God, know peace.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up this morning to David Teems on my iPod, singing He Is Our Peace.\u00a0 It brought to mind a phrase I have read, twice now, in Isaiah.\u00a0 In chapter 48:22 we read &#8220;There is no peace,&#8221; says the LORD, &#8220;for the wicked.&#8221; and again in 57:21 &#8220;There is no peace,&#8221; says my God,&hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"readmore-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/2010\/03\/26\/peace\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read <\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[34],"tags":[35,9,203],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peace","tag-david-teems","tag-isaiah","tag-peace"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1MnZf-peace","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}