Thus Peace is like a sentinel both in nature and in home life. But now bring this principle into the spiritual sphere where God and the soul are face to face. The peace of God is the application of a power that masters the human will not by violence but by reason and by love, giving it a new interest and a new direction. The point of contact between God as we surely find Him and ourselves as we really are is our consciousness of sin. And the peace of God is not so much the subtraction of what has been, but the bringing to bear upon it of a counter-agent stronger than our old disposition When there is easy talk of forgiveness a man_ says, "How can sin be abolished?" In a sense it cannot, but its effects can be cancelled or overcome by bringing the redemption which is in Jesus Christ to bear upon it.
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