Prince of Peace
Isaiah 9:6
He is the Prince of Peace. Think of individual life today. Was it ever more restless than it is now? What are the causes of unrest in individual life?… The Bible teaches that it is lack of God.
I take any individual life you please, and where there is no recognition of God, no practical, everyday, actual, positive traffic with God or commerce with eternity, then you have a life hot, restless, feverish. And by way of contrast, find me the man, or the woman, or the little child, who knows God; and I will find you a life of quietness and peace, in spite of all the circumstances of stress and strain and conflict. Oh, do we not know them! How they help us, the quiet saints of the most high God, many of them devoid of all the things that minister to man’s supposed well-being, but whose hearts are firm and steady.…
What is the way of peace?… It is the heart undivided in allegiance to God. So the Prince of peace comes.… He comes to say, I have brought a sword, and I have come to war against the things in your life that shut God out.… There are men and women who will yield to Him, and hand over to Him their sword of rebellion,… and to such men and to such women He will bring the peace of God which passeth all understanding.
G. Campbell Morgan, The Westminster Pulpit.