"I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace." — Thomas Paine
Peace is better than war, but only if it is a good peace.
"While a good peace is better than a good war, even a good war is better than a bad peace. These far-flung comparisons are nowhere so common as in the Gospels.” — G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
We must fight the good fight for the good peace. Peace without warfare is bad peace. It is compromise. It is capitulation. It is sin. Christ has called us to crush snakes and this cannot be accomplished by securing a signed affidavit from the snakes promising that they will not strike anymore.
Trouble must come if goodness has any grit. If goodness does not stand up for good things, it is not longer good... and the trouble still comes.
1 Thessalonians 4:11-12
And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.
We should want nothing more than to, as Augustine said, "Love God and do as we please." We should want this for ourselves and go to great lengths and personal discomforts to secure more of it for our posterity. We should pray for our magistrates to be less interested in everyone else's business and to be more interested in keeping the peace by keeping justice fair and swift.
1 Timothy 2:1-2
I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
Peace and quiet cannot be secured without self control from our magistrates. May God give us the faith to fight the good fight in our generation that our posterity may fight new and better battles further up and further in as Christendom conquers the world.
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