In a world rife with conflict and animosities, the role of the peacemaker stands as a vital yet challenging calling. Peacemaking aims to reconcile groups or individuals at odds, a task fraught with difficulties, yet blessed by God, as Jesus declares in Matthew 5:9, "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God." Despite the world's tendency to honor war-makers, God's perspective elevates those who strive for peace, affirming their divine blessing. The essence of peacemaking, as intended by Jesus, revolves not merely around mediating disputes but encompasses the very way we live. It involves projecting the nature of God through our conduct, reflecting a wisdom that is pure, peaceable, and willing to yield. This heavenly wisdom manifests in a person who, regenerated by God's Spirit, makes peace a rule in their life, calming rather than driving wedges of separation deeper. Peacemaking is a comprehensive package dominated by godliness, attitude, and character. Jesus Himself, titled the Prince of Peace in Isaiah 9:6, lived as a model of this kind of peacemaking, demonstrating that even if His life created conflict in others, it did not deter Him from embodying peace. As Paul advises in Romans 12:18, "As much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men," this task requires constant vigilance, self-control, and earnest prayer to ensure our conduct produces no just cause for complaint. The Christian duty of peacemaking extends to pursuing peace with all men alongside holiness, as noted in Hebrews 12:14, avoiding needless contentions without sacrificing truth or principle. Paul further urges in Romans 14:19 to pursue things that make for peace and edify others, emphasizing the need to lay aside causes of contention and focus on major issues of salvation to foster harmony. Moreover, peacemaking involves living humbly, cultivating meekness, patience, and forbearance in love, as Paul counsels in his letters. It includes passive resistance to contention, following Christ's example of gentleness in the face of provocation, and active efforts through prayer to invoke God's mercy on the world and the church, seeking to mend divisions as exemplified by figures like Abraham and Moses. The reward for such efforts is profound; peacemakers shall be called sons of God, reflecting His image and likeness. As Jesus, the Prince of Peace, unites us as brethren, we manifest His peaceable disposition, creating peace both passively by not causing disruption and actively by drawing others to emulate our tranquil example. This high standard of peacemaking, though complex, prepares us for a future role as authoritative peacemakers in the World Tomorrow when Christ returns, yielding a wonderful reward worth every effort to submit to God and seek His glorification.

Jesus Christ wanted His people to become peacemakers after receiving the peace He gives through the Holy Spirit. This beatitude in Matthew 5:9 states that peacemakers shall be called sons of God because God Himself is a God of peace who works for peace in all relationships. The dual effort of receiving peace from Jesus Christ and actively making peace produces the internal state of completeness and wholeness that leads to sonship. Without becoming peacemakers, one cannot become a son of God. The Christian must actively make peace rather than merely receive it. James 3:18 shows that the fruit of righteousness is sown in a state of peace by those who make peace. This making of peace is the righteous response to the peace God supplies. When peace flows through believers to others, growth toward the image of Jesus Christ advances rapidly. Peacemaking is part gift and part practice, like other fruit of the Spirit, and must not stop with the individual.

The seventh and final character trait among the Beatitudes is found in Matthew 5:9, where Jesus declares, "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the sons of God." This attribute is not primarily about inserting oneself between two quarreling friends to mediate their dispute, since such intervention often worsens the conflict by appearing to favor one side over the other. Instead, being a peacemaker refers to one's own character and conduct toward others—it describes a person who will not allow discord to persist between himself and those with whom he has issues. The place to begin making peace is between oneself and those where peace is currently absent, echoing Paul's exhortation to be at peace with all men if possible. This trait fits within the broader pattern of the seven Beatitudes, all of which concern how believers treat other people—whether through humility, mourning over sin, meekness, hungering for righteousness, showing mercy, purity of heart, or making peace. These qualities are not a menu from which one may select a few; rather, they must all be present together in a single individual, since seven represents completeness and perfection. Together they constitute the holy and righteous character of Jesus Christ Himself, the very nature that God is forming in His people as they are being created in His likeness. Possessing these traits, including peacemaking, brings a particular consequence: persecution. Those who embody this character will be reproached and falsely accused for righteousness' sake, just as the prophets before them were persecuted, and just as Jesus Himself warned His disciples that the world would hate them because it hated Him first. Yet Jesus commands His followers to rejoice in such persecution, since great is their reward in heaven. This connects directly to the identity given to believers as "the salt of the earth" and "the light of the world." As salt, they are scattered throughout the world rather than concentrated in one place; as light, each individual shines like a lamp in darkness. There is a warning attached to this identity, however: if salt loses its flavor, it becomes good for nothing and is thrown out. This risk of becoming spiritually tasteless comes about through failure to live out these seven character traits, including peacemaking. Paul's instruction to the Philippians to "do all things without complaints and disputes" is directly identified as an expression of this same peacemaking quality, reinforcing that believers must work out their own salvation with fear and trembling so that they may be blameless children of God, shining as lights in a crooked and perverse generation.