Blessed are the peacemakers
Morning 1 October 2023
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Catalogue of Human Conflict
John MacArthur wryly comments, ‘Peace is merely that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stops to reload.
Root of the Trouble
the Scottish theologian John Murray, writing in National Republic Magazine at the end of 1942 when World War II was at its height: ‘It is, no doubt, impossible for us to diagnose all the affections, motives, acts and purposes that have converged upon one another, that have interacted with one another, and that in unison bear the onus of responsibility for the gigantic catastrophe that has now befallen the world. We must recognize that a complex movement having its root far back in history, a complex movement of sinful impulse, ambition and action that only the all-seeing eye of God can fully view and diagnose, lies back of, and comes to fruition in, this present conflict.’
Albert Einstein, who won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1921 and whose theories of relativity revolutionized man’s thinking about the nature of time and space. In the course of a lecture delivered in 1948, he made the following comment on the threat of nuclear warfare: ‘It is not a physical problem, but an ethical one. What terrifies us is not the explosive force of the atomic bomb, but the power of the wickedness of the human heart, its explosive power for evil.’
Martyn Lloyd-Jones rightly says, ‘There is nothing more fatal than for the natural man to think that he can take the Beatitudes and put them into practice.’