They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
Jeremiah 6:14
This indictment by prophet Jeremiah of false prophets of his day could easily find a parallel today. The charge was repeated (8:11), so Jeremiah evidently considered it important. The prophet Ezekiel later levelled almost the same kind of indictment against the false prophets of his time: “They have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace” (Ezk 13:10).
Everyone would prefer to live in peace, of course. The word itself has almost become an ironic cliché. Almost all countries have organisations that would try to work towards world peace. Yet, no peace plan by any country in the world would be able to seal peace upon the world.
But there is no real peace (through humanly ways); numerous wars were accounted back during Babylonian times and Roman times and medieval times and all times! Even today there are dozens of small “wars and rumours of wars” going on in any given year and will continue to be so until Christ, the “Prince of Peace” , comes back to “speak peace unto the heathen” and to establish His kingdom of peace “even to the ends of the earth” (Zech 9:10).
There will never be peace within the hearts of sinful mankind. Which also explains why in any organisations you are in working in, there bound to be politicking and “back stabbing in the office .”
In the meantime, James reminds us of our personal guilt: “From where comes wars and fightings among you? come they not for this reason, of your lusts that war in your members?” (James 4:1). And Paul exhorts: “Finally, brothers, . . . be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you” (2 Cor 13:11).
May the Lord grant us peace that surpasses all understanding (Phi 4:7) so that we may be establish our lives upon our Lord Jesus Christ who is the unmoveable Rock of ages.
