God's Glory Church

What is missing most in our country today? What a shame – peace. Even today’s holiday of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ is overshadowed by the fact that many families do not celebrate it at home. And many men, sons and daughters meet this holiday in the trenches at ground zero. That is why today’s Passover in Ukraine has pixel colors. Because it is thanks to our defenders that we can be in the church and celebrate this great holiday.

What is so special about peace that when it is there, we perceive it as something familiar, and when we lose it, everything around us becomes joyless and anxious?

The war that is still going on in our country has reminded us how valuable peace is. Because when our neighbors decided to bring their “Russian peace”, for many people everything was divided into “before” and “after”. And this is how some cities looked before the arrival of the “Russian Peace” and after.

Kyiv, Kharkiv, Irpin… Many beautiful and green cities turned into ashes and ruins. Why? Because they lost the real peace, and instead came to them the diabolical, fiendish “Russian peace”.

In fact, peace is the state for which God created us. Therefore, living without peace is very difficult and I would say impossible. Today’s holiday reminds us of this, because it is for this that our Lord Jesus Christ came.

Do you know what the first words Jesus said to his disciples after the resurrection? Yes, you were not mistaken, He said, “Peace be with you.”

We can read about this in the Gospel of John in chapter 20:

“On the same day, the first day of the week, when the evening had come, and the doors where the disciples had gathered were locked because they were afraid of the Jews, Jesus appeared and stood in the middle and said to them: Peace be with you!“ (John 20:19)

But a logical question arises, what kind of peace does the Lord Jesus tell us about? He talks about the peace that every person needs and without which we cannot have real peace. This is what he went to the cross for, shed his blood for, and gave his life for. What kind of peace is this? This is peace with our Creator – Heavenly Father.

If this peace is so important that Jesus gave His life, how can we obtain it? Christ says about this a little later in this Gospel:

“This is written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and so that, believing, you may have life in His Name!” (John 20:31)

So how exactly can we have God’s peace? Only through faith in Jesus Christ as your personal Savior. This peace begins with repentance and it is through it that we receive forgiveness of sins and reconciliation with the Heavenly Father. Everyone needs this peace, especially in our country. And it is precisely without this peace that there will be no truly happy life, even when the war in our country ends.

That is why Jesus says today: Peace be with you! May this peace be between you and God. Between you and your relatives. Between you and your neighbors. And may the Lord help that this peace has come for our country as well.