Why do we crave peace?  Is there some central understanding among men that at some point all men wish to set down their arms, cease argument and live normally without perceived threat or air of danger?  Are there actual, literal forces at work attempting to inhibit this joint arrival at an armistice of sorts?  What would such a troop gain from ensuing chaos, continued division, interruption of normalcy or a return to balance in humanity?  And if there are no such forces then why is peace so elusive to us all?  If we crave it so why don’t we work toward it more, seek it with all of our hearts, fiber and formis mentis universita, a collective form of thinking determined beyond all calamity to achieve some lasting peace in the world?

Perhaps, we don’t really want and rather just discuss it as a good form of conversation to seem relevant in the mainstream discussion.  I mean no one wants a warmonger, so appear as opposite we must consistently refer to this illusion or peace to fit into the common stream of thought pursuance.  But maybe we don’t want peace, maybe we want the calamity, the excitement of the chaos, the unknown, undetermined, Wild West stagecoach robbing, sky is falling mentality that gives those who would be king an upper hand?  I mean you cannot take power or keep things out of balance without the injection of inconsistency.  What if we really don’t want peace and that is why we never see the components of its active pursuance on the planet?

Maybe it is beyond our scope of achievement.  The nirvana, beyond the horizon, unreacheable star that remains an ideal that always remains an inch beyond grasp.  What if we are at our core people who crave to be in some manner of disarray and quibble because like Momma said, “Don’t mind him he just doesn’t know any better”?  Are we that frail, that simplistic, that under evolved that we can only imagine peace never achieve that lasting rest in social discourse and agreement?  Really that seems a bit hopeless, but after all it is a possibility.

What if there are components within the paradigm who would lose their authority if peace were to be achieved?  No one needs to spend billions of dollars on standing armies as long as there are no dangerous foes waiting to land upon your shores or show up on your door step.  What if they know without doubt that if peace were to rule the day then their lustful quest for conquer of the innocent and authority would cease to exist?  What if the hopeless pursuit of disagreement at any cost is their objective as this is the state of affairs that perpetuates said authority?  Could there be people that evil who would resist peace as a means to maintain dominance?  It is hard for a peaceful man to comprehend that lane of thinking, to imagine someone so determined to have power that they would see all others cast into the raging seas of violent turbulence to further its establishment.  Perhaps, it is just as hard for them to negotiate around the islands of a man pent upon living in harmony with the world around him, even to the point of voluntarily giving up some authority.

Maybe it just isn’t time?  Did you ever stop to think that some seeds have been planted with a long term germination intended?  What if we crave peace, because the Prince of Peace is the only thing that can bring that lasting peace?  What if it is an encoded yearning for the righteous order that will only come when Jesus arrives for rule and reign, setting all things in their natural intention?  No, that can’t be it, you are a bit off your rocker so to say, perhaps you should slide back in, reseating your self?  Peace is something we crave, if we don’t crave it then most of us agree that there is in fact some error in our thinking.  If we want it so, cannot achieve it no matter the effort or cost and cannot seem to get it out of our minds as the pinnacle achievement for humanity, then we must reasonably conclude that it is a thing of a hopeful future.  What is hope?  Hope is belief in things yet to pass, yet to be seen, which is by definition “Faith”.  Faith in what, man’s apparent incapacity to stop lying, cheating, beating, deceiving, enslaving or killing his fellow man?  No, faith in something beyond us that will provide the answer to the unanswerable question that remains upon our tongue at the edge of our minds, how do we find that peace we all crave.  My peace surpasses worldly understanding because it is the promised peace of God that is given me for the asking, by God.  If you want peace, find it with God.  In Jesus’ Name.