Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. Peacemakers actively work to reconcile what is broken — between God and humanity, between human beings, between communities. The Hebrew shalom is more than the absence of conflict: it is the comprehensive flourishing of right relationship in every dimension of life. Romans 5:10–11 says we are reconciled to God through Christ's death and have the ministry of reconciliation (2 Corinthians 5:18–19). The sons of God designation is the most elevated in the Beatitudes: the peacemakers share in the work of the one who is called Prince of Peace (Isaiah 9:6) and who reconciled humanity to God through the cross (Colossians 1:20). They shall be called sons of God — the calling is the recognition of what they have become through participation in God's own reconciling work.

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