In Leviticus chapter three, verse one, the peace offering is a requirement to have fellowship with God and to express thanksgiving or to make a vow back in the Old Testament. For the offerer, it involved a commitment to the covenant and celebrated peace and reconciliation between God and the worshiper. Today, the offering points forward to peace and fellowship that believers have with God and other believers based on Christ’s death on the cross, and then the final communion when we shall sit down with God in His kingdom.
In society, a peace offering usually occurs when one person decides to cancel any hostility that may have happened in the past with another individual. The courage to move forward from whatever the problem may have been, big or small, to push the “restart button” and live peacefully again and in harmony. The opportunity to reconnect with someone is the best feeling for the giver and, eventually, the receiver. However, the results of reconciling with the other person may not occur first as expected. Sometimes people are still recovering because we are all different and need more time to heal than others.
A peace offering is a prerequisite for the believer to God today because we were sinners before we accepted Jesus Christ into our hearts. To be able to come before the Lord and admit our faults to Him if we did not experience a good day where we contributed to a situation that went wrong and ask for forgiveness is where the peace offering begins. There may be something that happens that may involve us, and we did not even do anything wrong but are willing to make peace anyways is a blessing that God acknowledges. “A peace that passes all understanding” that God only knows. A peace offering to the God of peace.