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Greetings,
It has been a great week in Bulgaria. God’s presence, God’s life, and God’s purpose have saturated the atmosphere of the week. Once again, thank you so much to the hungry hearts here who desire God above all. Your love for Him and for me is a testimony of life to the nation! The future is life, and more life, in Christ!
This is a time to know the peace of God in the midst of the storms of the world. It is a time to know the justice of God above the judgments of men. I believe that peace and justice are connected. The justice systems of the world are based upon judgments of good and evil and they very often promote evil in the disguise of good. When we seek a justice system of good and evil, we embrace a family tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The fruit of that tree is death and not the life that God intends for us to know and have.
Everyone wants justice of some sort. True justice is only found in God. It is rooted in mercy, but it is not void of life-transforming grace. It does not condemn mankind in their iniquities, nor does it condone the clothing of iniquities as the way of truth. The justice of God is found in the place of God’s peace. It is from the place of God’s peace in our lives that everything is made just. In the world, people seek justice that they might have peace. In Christ, we find peace and therefore we bear the fruit of justice towards others. Because we are loved, we become loving in our ways. Peace is both a place and a revelation. The worldly man or woman does not know this truth; therefore, they don’t wear the testimony of the righteousness of God in Christ.
Isaiah 59:9 Therefore justice is far from us, nor does righteousness overtake us; We look for light, but there is darkness! For brightness, but we walk in blackness! 10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes; we stumble at noonday as at twilight; we are as dead men in desolate places. 11 We all growl like bears, and moan sadly like doves; we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us. 12 For our transgressions are multiplied before You, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know them: 13 in transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. 14 Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
Everyone believes they are seekers of light, but apart from Christ that light proves to be darkness. It is not that people intentionally seek to bring death to their world. They are simply blind. They grope to know who to be, what to seek, and how to act, but their vision is self-focused. Like bears, they are concerned with their own appetites and their own way in life. They walk according to the flesh. You cannot walk according to the flesh and find peace. Like the moaning of doves, they seek the comfort of their own desires and needs. The sound of their hearts is a sound of self-focused love. It is by these things that they seek justice, but they don’t find it. The true justice for humanity is to be like their heavenly Father. They need to be givers of life to others. We cannot find these things apart from God. Apart from God we are oppressed, and we oppress others. When we revolt to God’s ways, we revolt to the true source of our ways. A disconnection from God only leads to falsehood and empowers one to believe lies and to even believe in lies. The way of life-giving cannot enter that path because it is a path that is not true to the destiny of sons and daughters of God. This is not the path of truth for humanity. Our destiny is to be like our heavenly Father. Our path is a path of giving life to others.
Jesus became the intercessor of our peace. He destroys the lies of falsehood by making a way for us to come to Him and live in and for Him in all things. By this His Kingdom comes and His will is done on earth as it is in heaven. The foundation is mercy, and the walls are restored by grace to become truth. This is the way of peace in Christ.
Blessings,
Ted J. Hanson
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