Jehovah Shammah: The Lord is Peace

 Judges 6-7; Psalms 52; 1 Corinthians 14 

“But the Lord said to him, ‘Peace! Do not be afraid. You are not going to die.’ So Gideon built an altar to the Lord there and called it The Lord is Peace. To this day it stands in Ophrah…”

Judges 6:23, 24

The revelation of God’s name as Jehovah Shammah – ‘the Lord is Peace’ - came in the midst of tremendous pressure and conflict. Gideon’s internal battle with fear was rooted in the fact that he did not know the Lord. His family and community worshipped both the Lord and the fertility religions of Baal and Asherah. Gideon feared the Midianites, the rejection of his community, and the future. The Lord was looking for someone who would obey him and be an instrument of deliverance and peace to his people. To be an instrument of peace we must surrender our fears, our sins, and our will to the Lord of Peace. 

Today, are we looking for inner and outer peace without fully surrendering to the Lord of Peace?

Our world wants peace, but few are willing to humble themselves to the will and ways of the Lord to be delivered from their enemies. Gideon’s fear of the Midianite terrorists was displaced by the presence of the Lord of Peace.

What pressure or fears are we being invited to overcome by Jehovah Shammah?

“Lord Jesus, you are my peace. I repent for serving other gods and then blaming you for my conflict. Deliver me, for your glory.”