Real Peace

The peace symbol is back! When it started making its rise again, I did not like it. Preachers are not suppose to like anything new, you know. Although the peace symbol is 50 years old, when my child started wanting it on everything then I got keyed up. Although many say it has its roots in all kinds of bad things, I haven't come across real evidence for such. It appears it was created in 1958 by a British man named Gerald Holtom who designed to be a sign for nuclear disarmament. It was to be a combination of two semaphore signs (semaphore is a coded sign language made with flags so that people can read it from a far distance): one for N as in Nuclear and the other for D as in disarmament.
Put these two signs on top of each other and you get that peace symbol that looks like a crow's foot. I grew satisfied with that answer and Abby has a lot of peace symbol stuff. But don't ever get an effort for peace or just a fashion statement mixed up with real peace. In Isaiah today real peace is discovered and I love the passage that I read. Isaiah 2:4- He shall judge the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.  Don't you love it!  There is coming a day when the strife will be gone and there will be no need for weapons.  However, the fruitfulness will be so bountiful that people will be taking those valuable weapons and making common farming tools out of them so that they can take in all the harvest that is before them.
Do I understand all of that? No and be suspect of anyone that says they do, however, what it tells me is that real peace can only come through the Prince of Peace.  In the rest of our Isaiah passage the Lord is ridiculing His People for going through the motions in worship but not living it out the rest of the time. He is more interested in us living it out daily than just showing up on Sunday.  When we live it out and then come together for the common cause of Christ, He will bless us with so much fruitfulness that we will be looking for tools to bring in the harvest quicker. 
Do you get it?  If the only hope at peace is the Prince of Peace, then live it out through Him and for Him until we see Him face to face and His Peace reigns in all places.  In the meantime, let Him reign in your life.   Even Today!