"Peace Personified"

"Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee." (Psalms 139:12)

  I really don't know what else to say, it is about a way make any sense of what we are looking at: if we were going to paint God as a person, then how else could you describe His appearance? We looked at our appearance yesterday, which was not all that much to write home about; but if there was a way to describe how God might appear, to would have to involve something that would be so glorious and holy, that there would be no differential appearance to darkness and light! If you could put that kind of appearance into a word, what do you think that word might be? PEACE! If Jesus is called, "The Prince of Peace," where is this peace manifested? I know it is hard to visualize this, but I want to take this conversation back to the Second Day of creation, the one in which God did not say, "It was good." The First Day, God said, "Let there be light," and God said that the light was good, and then He divided the light from the darkness. On the Second Day, God created the, "firmament," which in a weird abstract way separated the earth from Heaven; to which, "It was good," did not get mentioned; instead, it just says, "and it was so." In this was the one simple flaw in God's creation, that His holiness and what He was creating could not coexist together! I know it sounds incredibly weird, and if it is, then I will take the blame for my weirdness; but if you read the illustration of John's testimony of what he saw and heard in heaven, it pretty much makes perfect sense. In the long run, everything becomes ONE! God dwells with His people and He Himself, yes, that's right, He shall dwell with His people, meaning each and every one of us! Darkness and light are no more! There is no need for the sun or the moon, because there are no more mornings and nights! There is absolutely no more "firmament" also; no more obscurity between God and His people! The glory of God will shine continually, and there will be night! So, if we could illustrate and personify what God might look like, it makes perfect sense that if you love God, He will be a glorious Light that gives us perfect peace; but if you do not love Him, you are consumed by His illumination...

"This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and we walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin,  we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us." (1 John 1:5-10)