Then Gideon built an altar there unto the LORD, and called it Jehovahshalom: unto this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
Jehovah Shalom — “the LORD is peace” — is the name Gideon gave to an altar after a trembling encounter with God. Certain he would die for having seen the angel of the LORD, Gideon instead heard God say, “Peace be unto thee; fear not.”
“Shalom” means far more than the absence of conflict. It is wholeness, wellbeing, everything set right. To call God our peace is to say that true peace is not a thing he gives so much as who he is.
Gideon met this name at a moment of fear, and that is often where we meet it too. When we expect judgment or disaster, God comes speaking peace — “fear not” — and settles the anxious heart.
The peace of Jehovah Shalom does not depend on our circumstances being calm. It flows from the presence of a God who is himself our peace, holding us steady whatever storms surround us.
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