{"id":7326,"date":"2019-11-11T06:00:16","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T14:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/?p=7326"},"modified":"2019-11-12T08:46:24","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T16:46:24","slug":"john-1633-devotional-a-time-for-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/john-1633-devotional-a-time-for-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"John 16:33 Devotional &#8211; A TIME FOR PEACE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>John 16:33\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><strong><em>\u201c<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>These things I have spoken to you, that<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>in Me you may have peace.<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer,<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>I have overcome the world<\/em><\/strong>.<strong><em>\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">World War I, sometimes called the \u201cGreat War,\u201d was a huge waste of human life. It has been calculated that some fifteen million people lost their life in this terrible conflict that ended on this date, November 11, 1918.\u00a0\u00a0It was thought back then that peace would prevail and no more such wars would be fought \u2014 but it was barely 20 years before the even more devastating World War II broke out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As we honor this day of peace it is important to get a picture of what peace means. It is the Hebrew word, \u201cShalowm\u201d (shalom) and means completeness, soundness, welfare and tranquility. The word peace is found 429 times in Scripture and is a concept that is important to understand.\u00a0[The Hebraic concept of shalom is \u2018nothing missing-nothing broken\u2019 but\u00a0figuratively it points to completeness.]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over the centuries there have been many attempts to secure peace between individuals, families, communities or nations. These human attempts have always failed because it is only the Lord who gives peace.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The wonderful thing is that the Lord gives us peace in the midst of the storms of life. His peace comes from the inside out rather than from the outside in. His peace passes all human understanding.\u00a0\u00a0May He grant you His \u201cshalom\u201d!<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">May God richly bless you by your words and actions!<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; Pastor Cecil<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John 16:33\u00a0 \u201cThese things I have spoken to you, that\u00a0in Me you may have peace.\u00a0In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer,\u00a0I have overcome the world.\u201d World War I, sometimes called the \u201cGreat War,\u201d was a huge waste of human life. It has been calculated that some fifteen million people lost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}