Bible Wonders - My Peace I Leave With YOU

Did you ever wonder? Did you ever wonder?

I do. Did you ever wonder? Why the sun always rises, but the stars never fall?

Why dry land is never satisfied by water? And why fire never says enough? Jesus couldn't have made it more clear that his peace he would leave with us and peace in Hebrew you may know is Shalom and not too dissimilar from the words we've talked about here recently This word too ends in a mem and I've just been wowed I guess by how these words are so connected. These words are so connected by Jesus, both the words repent which we talked about yesterday and the word grace. And here we have the word peace.

And Jesus made it so clear this is so important to our hearts to have peace. And the reason is when you look at the word and he presents it to you, it's so important to you. It starts out with a shin, which means to oxidize, fire, you know, purify. It also means truth, but the idea here clearly in Shalom is that we are going to purify your heart because the second letter is a lamed. And that letter means to learn, but it also means the heart. And so you realize, like me, if you love to learn, that it's so much to learn. It's so much about your heart. As you learn, and as the fire from that shin begins to purify our hearts through what we learn and how we love, then the next letter is of, again, Jacob's ladder that's going to bring down something from heaven.

And the last letter being that mem, as we talked about. It's a living water. It is, you know, Jesus, when you think about Moses, when he was arguing with God, as we talked about, the word repent yesterday, that when God took comfort, the way he took comfort was he realized, oh yeah, Jesus is going to make this right. Jesus is the water that's going to come out of the rock. He's the living water. He's the bread that is going to come down from heaven. He is, right, the promised land. That this is where we're all headed is that that living water, that Jesus that will come and live in our hearts. And so, as we ask Jesus in our hearts, since he is the Prince of Peace, he's the Prince of Shalom, that our hearts will be purified so that he can come down from heaven and stay here. When you look at the word Shalom, that shin is the fire, the lamed is your heart, the vav, again, coming down, and then the mem at the end, both water and Torah and Messiah. Something to wonder about today on Bible Wonders.