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Praying for
Peace
"If people really wanted peace, they would ask
God, and God would give it to them. But why should God give the world
peace,
which it does not really want? For the peace the world seems to desire
is not
really peace at all. To some people, peace really means the liberty to
exploit
other people without fear of retaliation or interference. To others,
peace
means the freedom to rob one another without interruption. To still
others, it
means the leisure to devour the goods of the earth without being
compelled to
interrupt their pleasures to feed those whom their greed is starving.
And to
practically everybody, peace implies the absence of any physical
violence that
might cast a shadow over lives devoted to the satisfaction of their
animal
appetites for comfort and pleasure.
Many people
like these have asked God for what they thought was 'peace' and
wondered why
their prayer was not answered. They could not understand that it
actually was
answered. God left them with what they desired, for their idea of of
peace was
only another form of war. So, instead of loving what you think is
peace, love
other people and love God, above all. And, instead of hating the people
you
think are warmakers, hate the appetites and the disorder in your own
soul, which
are the causes of war." Home
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