God is in Control - we look today upon a war-weary world and see that there is no lasting peace. But God is in control. The wrong will fail; the right will prevail. Christians can have peace that passes understanding as we trust our lives into the hands of the Prince of Peace. "Then I heard a loud voice shouting across the heavens, 'It has come at last — salvation and power and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ. For the accuser of our brothers and sisters has been thrown down to earth — the one who accuses them before our God, day and night'"

“I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day” was written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1864 during the Civil War. 

With a heavy heart he wrote of “no peace on earth” because “hate is strong.”

Yet even as he wrote, a glimpse of hope shone through as he continued to write: “God is not dead . . . the wrong shall fail, the right prevail.”

Those words could also summarize the Book of Revelation. 

"Then I heard a loud voice shouting across the heavens, 'It has come at last — salvation and power and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ.

"For the accuser of our brothers and sisters has been thrown down to earth — the one who accuses them before our God day and night'" - (Revelation 12:10).

These verses speak of the final triumph of God and the Lamb. 

We look today upon a war-weary world and see that hate is strong and there is no lasting peace. 

But we can shout to the world, “God is not dead!” 

He is in control. 

The wrong will fail; the right will prevail. 

Thought for Today: 

Christians can have peace that passes understanding as we trust our lives into the hands of the Prince of Peace.

Quicklook: Revelation 12:7–12

GOD'S WORD FOR TODAY

The Scriptures, both the Old and New Testaments, are verbally inspired of God and are the revelation of God to man, the infallible, authoritative rule of faith and conduct.

The one true God has revealed Himself as the eternally self-existent "I AM," the Creator of heaven and earth and the Redeemer of mankind. He has further revealed Himself as embodying the principles of relationship and association as Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

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I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day (youtube.com)

I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

lyrics

I heard the bells on Christmas Day

Their old, familiar carols play,

and wild and sweet

The words repeat

Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

And thought how, as the day had come,

The belfries of all Christendom

Had rolled along

The unbroken song

Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

Till ringing, singing on its way,

The world revolved from night to day,

A voice, a chime,

A chant sublime

Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

Then from each black, accursed mouth

The cannon thundered in the South,

And with the sound

The carols drowned

Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

It was as if an earthquake rent

The hearth-stones of a continent,

And made forlorn

The households born

Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

And in despair I bowed my head;

“There is no peace on earth,” I said;

“For hate is strong,

And mocks the song

Of peace on earth, good-will to men!”

Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:

“God is not dead, nor doth He sleep;

The Wrong shall fail,The Right prevail,

With peace on earth, good-will to men.”

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