Blessed are the peacemakers

Blessed are the peacemakers

Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called children of God. Matthew 5:9

When a man or woman takes on the life of a peacemaker, I think that they transcend normal compassion or serving ones community. A person might do something for another person out of "an act of kindness" or because it is "the right thing to do". But consider this; do our random acts of kindness erupt from altruism or out of a hope to receive kindness in return? What makes us qualify as Peacemakers?

I think that many people look at the lives of great servant-reformers to gain inspiration and lessons for harmonious living. And names like Mother Teresa or Martin Luther King are synonymous with peace making and servant hood. But are they the only individuals worthy of being called Peacemaker? Are they the only ones worthy of the moniker?

In Ephesians 2:14 it says that Christ is our peace and the one that destroyed the dividing wall between God and mankind. For this reason I would say that Christ is the ultimate peacemaker. We who trust in Christ as Lord and Savior, are to follow his example. Whenever we bring glory to God by turning people toward God, we take on the duty passed onto us by Christ. Maybe, real peacemakers are the people that direct the attention of others to Christ, for when these others place their entire hope in Christ, their struggle with God will have ceased. And what better peace is there than when a man or woman begins to trust God because of Christ?