Jehovah-Shalom - The LORD is Peace

Today, Sunday August 23 - Jehovah-Shalom, The LORD is Peace!  Peace is something that money cannot buy!  Probably the most sought after thing in the world for our soul is peace!  Yet it seems so hard to find and keep.  Just when we think we have found it, something comes along and disturbs it. We meet God by this compound name of Jehovah-Shalom in Judges 6 where we read the story of the Israelites under the oppression of the Midianites who have invaded their land.  And God is about to raise up a judge by the name of Gideon to bring deliverance to the people. As Gideon is in the process of being commissioned by the LORD, he is over whelmed with fear and the LORD says to him, "Peace be to you. Do not fear, you shall not die!" "Then Gideon built an altar thee to the LORD and called it, Jehovah-Shalom, The LORD is Peace! (Judges 6:23-24)  Today, Jesus says to us in John 14:27 "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid."  God bless!