Thin Ice

With storms, literal and figurative, raging across the country this weekend, we took a break from Daniel. David preached on true peace, taking as his text Jesus’s calming of the stormwaters in Mark 4:35-41. Here, God’s word teaches us that true peace is not the absence of conflict, but rather a solid footing that allows us to face conflict without fear. David contrasted this with human peace using the image of ice:

Human peace is like thin ice. Even before tasting the joy of peace, we become anxious to keep the fragile peace, and this makes us even more anxious. This is false peace. False peace comes when we rely on false God.