Jehovah Shalom / Pentecost is Still Happening Today

$300.00

Oil on canvas, with imitation gold leaf | 14x14

Shalom carries with it a meaning of wholeness, completeness, everything is in perfect harmony and perfect justice. It conveys a depth of rightness - a person in Shalom is in a right relationship with God, with others, and with the world at large.

While we - in our Western context - tend to think of peace as an absence of violence or conflict, Shalom is not a passive posture; it’s not the absence of violence, the absence of war, the absence of pain. Rather, Shalom is an active posture; it’s the dismantling of discord and violence and pain. It’s fighting for rightness in your walk with God, and working for the good and the flourishing of your family in Christ and your family in humanity.

There’s something beautiful and powerful that happens when we gather as the knit-together body of Christ, thanks to the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit. Rather than shrinking away from conflict in a posture of fear or passivity, we’re empowered to lean in, to run towards the fire, and to bring rightness to the world.

Oil on canvas, with imitation gold leaf | 14x14

Shalom carries with it a meaning of wholeness, completeness, everything is in perfect harmony and perfect justice. It conveys a depth of rightness - a person in Shalom is in a right relationship with God, with others, and with the world at large.

While we - in our Western context - tend to think of peace as an absence of violence or conflict, Shalom is not a passive posture; it’s not the absence of violence, the absence of war, the absence of pain. Rather, Shalom is an active posture; it’s the dismantling of discord and violence and pain. It’s fighting for rightness in your walk with God, and working for the good and the flourishing of your family in Christ and your family in humanity.

There’s something beautiful and powerful that happens when we gather as the knit-together body of Christ, thanks to the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit. Rather than shrinking away from conflict in a posture of fear or passivity, we’re empowered to lean in, to run towards the fire, and to bring rightness to the world.