Daily Sacrifice, June 19 (24:6)


“Ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet”— Matthew 24:6.

ALL men’s efforts to bring about a warless world are doomed to result in failure, so long as the Prince of Peace is rejected. He alone can speak peace to the nations. In His own times He will take over the reins of government, and then the nations shall learn war no more.

While His authority is denied and His Word spurned, the world will ever be, as He Himself foretold, a scene where nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and men’s hearts will fail them for fear as they behold the things that are coming on the earth.

But even when ideologies are clashing, kingdoms being destroyed and vast armies endeavoring to annihilate one another, the heart of the Christian may be kept in peace as he realizes that God’s restraining hand is over all, and the most wicked of men can do nothing apart from His permissive will.

—R. Heber.