A White Horse Riding

 She saw through the snow covered birch trees, a white horse riding.....with a handsome guy hanging onto the reins....and she thought, wow.....my prince has come!  

This was the scene in a recent Netflix series I watch.  It's based on horse books my oldest daughter used to read in junior high school and the young girl in the show is dreaming about her boyfriend......isn't it every teen's dream to be snatched up by a handsome prince on a white horse and ride off into the distance?  Don't we sometimes wish our life were a fairy tale?

As I was reading through my Advent devotional this morning, I couldn't help but think of that scene I saw on the show last night. The devotional is about all the different names of Jesus and one of them is Prince of Peace.  I thought of how the world....unbelievers....are searching for peace.  Everlasting peace.  They don't realise they aren't just searching for an end to war..they're searching for peace in their very souls...in their innermost being....in their core.

Scripture tells us that Jesus....our Prince of Peace....is coming again.  He will be on a white horse riding. 

"Then I saw heaven opened, and a white horse was standing there. And the One sitting on the horse was called Faithful and True. .....he was clothed in a robe dipped in blood, and His title was the Word of God."  ~Revelation 19: 11a, 13~

Our Prince of Peace came first as a human baby....born so humbly and laid in a manger....we all know the history......and He is our dream come true when we accept His grace and forgiveness and believe He died for our sins and rose again so that we also may live eternally.  He came to restore our hearts towards God....so we can have a relationship that sin separated.....when we accept and believe Christ, He brings restoration to our relationship with the Creator......which leads to that deep, abiding peace. 

And guess what?! He's also coming back to reign in a new heaven and a new earth. 

His Presence will bring Peace and He will be on a white horse riding.......

.....and that's not a fairy tale....it's Truth.........

The Prince of Peace.