PEACE IN WAR.

Peace which passes all understanding

We live in a time and age with war or some of conflict ravaging every nation. Every nation has some kind of war going, some more tolerable than others. And the question asked is that where the peace is that God promised us when Christ said ‘Peace I leave with you not as the world gives’.

This is the answer.

Peace is not the absence of conflict nor is war; the truth is that the peace that Christ gave to us flourishes in the midst of the trouble.

Remember where that peace came from in the first place, it didn’t come from the outside circumstances, when we give our lives over to Christ, that peace seats on the inside of us despite all  the problems we might be facing at the time.

I find it interesting that at one time Christ did not feel at peace, because He was man like us He felt troubled, He said in John 12:27 –Now is my soul troubled…….. So you are not alone in feeling troubled at all the problems that surround us or are in our world.

However remain at peace on the inside of you because:

We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed,

Persecuted but not forsaken

Cast down but never destroyed

Because

I know whom I have believed and I’m persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that day

Because

When Peace like a River attendeth my way, when sorrows like seas bellows roll, whatever my lot thou hast thought me to know and say it is well with my soul.

Because

There are so many things about tomorrow I don’t seem to understand but I know who owns tomorrow and I know He holds my hand.

So my friend, the next time you are troubled remember you’re not alone and Christ was just as troubled as you are, but above all don’t let anything take the peace you have on your inside. Speak peace be still to your soul. Remember God said ‘Be Still and Know that I am God’

May God grant you peace, not as the world gives but peace that passes all understanding.