Dec. 15

Charles Spurgeon · Faith's Checkbook

WORLD CONCORD

   "And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears
   into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
   neither shall they learn war any more Isa. 2:4

   Oh, that these happy times were come! At present the nations are
   heavily armed, and are inventing weapons more and more terrible, as if
   the chief end of man could only be answered by destroying myriads of
   his fellows. Yet peace will prevail one day; yes, and so prevail that
   the instruments of destruction shall be beaten into other shapes and
   used for better purposes.

   How will this come about? By trade? By civilization? By arbitration? We
   do not believe it. Past experience forbids our trusting to means so
   feeble. Peace will be established only by the reign of the Prince of
   Peace. He must teach the people by His Spirit, renew their hears by His
   grace, and reign over them by His supreme power, and then will they
   cease to wound and kill. Man is a monster when once his blood is up,
   and only the Lord Jesus can turn this lion into a lamb. By changing
   man's heart, his blood-thirsty passions are removed. Let every reader
   of this book of promises offer special prayer today to the Lord and
   Giver of Peace, that He would speedily put an end to war, and establish
   concord over the whole world.