Paul writes to people whom everything set against one another: Jews and Gentiles, two worlds separated by centuries of mutual contempt. Between them, a wall — real in the Temple, and higher still in their hearts.
And here is the news: “He himself is our peace.” Not “he makes peace,” nor “he teaches peace.” He is peace. Between you and the other, it is not a technique that stands — it is a person.
“For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility.”
Ephesians 2:14
Christ did not go around the wall, he tore it down — at his own cost, in his flesh. The peace he gives cost a cross. It is never a cheap peace.
Wherever you see a wall this morning — a broken relationship, a settled contempt — remember: he has already stood in that breach. The reconciliation you think impossible, he has already made possible in himself.