Peace…. Will we ever know what peace truly means?
This morning news showcased President Obama receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, a distinguished award previously bestowed upon Nelson Mandela, Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, Martti Ahtisaari, Shirin Ebadi, Kofi Annan, Mikhail Gorhachev, Martin Luther King Jr., Kim Dae-Jung, and so many more well deserving individuals. Yet this award comes at the most awkward time known to man, a time when a President and recipient just last week asked 30,000 troops to report to war time areas, is that Peace?
Has our worldview of right and wrong become so skewed that we honor a man for peaceful actions only ten days in to his presidential term? Has our worldview left that of a religious connotation?
1 Corinthians 2:6-8 (New International Version)
6We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 7No, we speak of God's secret wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. 8None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
I still find this verse true today, represented by the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a man who yet has shown peace. Our ruler of our age has yet to understand peace, has yet acknowledge peace, but yet will stand up and receive an award that he is unworthy of when so many others stand for what peace should be. The Glory of God, the Glory of our freedom. Not the power to destroy, not the power to send many in to battle like young Army SPC Officer Marcus Tynes who passed away on November 22nd in Afghanistan at the mere age of 19. Where is the peace in that?
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