No Peace To The Wicked

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"But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked." (Isaiah 57:20,21)


What a fitting description of the life and destiny of those who are labeled, by God, as "wicked." All men are born with a perverseness of character, with an infection of spiritual and moral depravity, which acts as leaven, or as a cancer, corrupting and spoiling them.

Sinners are appropriately labeled as "wicked" and evil because they stand condemned by the holy law of God, being in every way opposite to all that is good, holy and righteous.


Some are sensible of their evil natures, of their sinfulness, of their propensity to be spiritually and morally deviant, of the rebelliousness of their hearts against God and his word, while others seem totally insensible of it.


Men are not honest with themselves. They naturally delude themselves with pretensions, dreams, and false hopes and ambitions. They habitually ignore all the signs and voices of God calling them to "consider their ways," to seriously think about the fruit and consequences of "going their own way" in opposition to that of the Lord's.


The "peace" which the "wicked" enjoy is not real or lasting peace. It is all temporary and illusive. They have "no rest" either. That is why they need Christ and his salvation. He is called the "Prince of Peace." He can speak peace to troubled hearts as he can calm troubled seas.

Oh what a precious commodity is peace! We long for "world peace," knowing that it will never come by the efforts of wicked men. We desire a world where conflict, sorrow and sighing, are no more. So many marriages and homes lack peace and oh what an awful place to be in without it! We are living too in "turbulent times," peace being a thing totally unobtainable.

God promises to give "peace" to those who come to him, through Christ, and who receive from him "forgiveness" for all their sins. Do you desire peace? Peace with God? Peace of mind? Peace in your circumstances? Peace forever? Then look to the one who came to "make peace by the blood of his cross." (Col. 1:20)