A few weeks ago i finished my series on Basics, and i closed it out with the thought of Shalom.

Shalom is a huge idea for the early followers of God. It was all about the never-failing presence of God in their every day lives.

Shalom was not just peace.

It is peace, health, well-being, prosperity, contentment, joy, and the never-failing love of God!

This is what every Hebrew family was looking for and praying for when they prayed for shalom to be upon their lives and the lives of those they loved.

The idea of Shalom was very important to the early followers of Christ also!

These followers of Jesus believed that ultimate shalom would be brought to earth by the messiah. God’s deliverer! And they believed that Jesus was the Christ…the anointed one of God.

Because Jesus was Christ, He poured out of Himself the Shalom of God onto all people.

And now…we are to take that Shalom and give it away!

The kingdom of Jesus is all about Him fulfilling all things. And that means that we are redeemed and we are now fulfilled by Him and in Him! And that means that we are to allow Him to live thru us!!!!

So…let’s get living! We are the ones that Shalom has been given…now we are to give it away!

peace! out!