A Psalm of Peacemaking

We live in a time of kairos*

when humanity stands on the border of a promised time,

when God’s people are summoned to obedience and faithfulness

to preserve God’s creation,

to stand with the poor and oppressed everywhere, and

to stand together as the people of the earth;

when with confession and with humility we repent of

our blindness to the division and war in our own hearts and in our own land,

our obsession with money and our pursuit of power,

our irrational belief in security through weaponry, and

our worship of secular gods.

We are called

to be obedient to Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace,

who loves the whole world and

who invites us to be stewards of the earth and servants of his people,

to be co-workers in the new Creation.

Let us be peacemakers.

Let us be called the children of God,

speaking boldly with moral conviction to the nation and to the world,

building, with God’s grace, a new moral order in the world community; and

acting now for world peace, and enterprise of justice, and outcome of love.

--“Peacemaking: The Believers’ Calling,” UPCUSA, 1980

*kairos

Greek: Awareness of God’s purpose breaking in; opportune moment.