In Jesus’ sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5:9 He said to His disciples, “Blessed are the peacemakers.” Obviously this is not talking about a natural disposition, but a condition of the believer’s heart. A peacemaker carries two main ideas:
• A peacemaker is a person who is at peace, or if you will is at rest in the state of being at peace.
• A peacemaker is a person who is not quarrelsome. They are actively seeking to bring that state of peace or rest into wherever they are. 2 Cor. 5:18-20 describes what a peacemaker is: “Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God.”
The bringing together of two that have been at odds with each other is what Christ has done at the cross in His body paying for our sin bringing together God and us. And clearly we have been called to do the same. Rom. 5:1 further tells us “Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,” Jesus continues and says that they shall be called the sons of God. The idea is that we shall look like the one in Whom has brought us peace. We will be as to our very nature peacemakers because we have been peace partakers! There is No peace unless we Know Him who is peace.