Weakness of the World's Peace

People everywhere search for peace. They sing songs about it and travel on pilgrimages to find it. They even wage war to protect it. Many wealthy, famous, and powerful people would trade everything for just one moment of lasting peace that does not change when circumstances change.

The world’s peace fails because it ignores God. It ignores the need to admit our sin problem. It considers God’s principles to be useless and dangerous. Notice how Jeremiah described it as he lived through the rejection of God that led to the traumatic destruction of Jerusalem. 

Behold, the word of the Lord is a reproach to them; they have no delight in it. Jeremiah 6:10b (NKJV)

God’s formula for peace was a reproach to the Israelites. Their delight was no longer in God. True lasting peace, possible even during traumatic times, comes when we delight in the endless treasures of wisdom and perspective in God’s word.