The peace of God surpasses all human understanding, and this peace of God will guard both our hearts (emotional seat) and our minds (intellectual seat) because we have made peace with God through Jesus Christ’s. The peace that God gives us is a peace that the world void of Christ cannot understand.
Many in the world today have no peace. I have met Christians who have no peace. Just because we confess Jesus as our Savior does not mean we have made Him our Lord. Lord means master. Years ago I made Jesus my Savior. I knew when I died I would go to heaven. I did my own thing and ask for God to bless my endeavors and the places I went; well I invited Him to go to. It was as if I was in the driver’s seat and invited God to get in, buckle up and enjoy the ride. Giving God the wheel was a foreign idea to me, after all I was in control. When people say they are in control it either means their world is too small or they are going the wrong way and don’t know the difference. They are blinded by the world and fooled into believing a lack of dis-ease means they are fine.
Before we were saved, we really didn’t have peace of mind, did we? No, most of us pillowed our head at night not having the peace that believers do. This is why Isaiah wrote, “The way of peace they do not know, and there is no justice in their paths; they have made their roads crooked; no one who treads on them knows peace” (Isaiah 59:8). The fact is, “’There is no peace,’ says my God, ‘for the wicked‘” (Isaiah 57:21) because “the wicked are like the tossing sea, which cannot rest, whose waves cast up mire and mud” (Isaiah 57:20). Not a very settling picture, is it?
You cannot have the peace of God until you are first at peace with God, and there is no peace with God until you have been justified by Christ. An easy way to understand justification is simply. (Just as if you never sinned)
Paul writes this very fact in Romans 5:1: “Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” That’s all the more reason to “rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation” (Rom. 5:11).
No peace? No God. Know peace? Know God. That pretty well says it all.
Many in the world today have no peace. I have met Christians who have no peace. Just because we confess Jesus as our Savior does not mean we have made Him our Lord. Lord means master. Years ago I made Jesus my Savior. I knew when I died I would go to heaven. I did my own thing and ask for God to bless my endeavors and the places I went; well I invited Him to go to. It was as if I was in the driver’s seat and invited God to get in, buckle up and enjoy the ride. Giving God the wheel was a foreign idea to me, after all I was in control. When people say they are in control it either means their world is too small or they are going the wrong way and don’t know the difference. They are blinded by the world and fooled into believing a lack of dis-ease means they are fine.
Before we were saved, we really didn’t have peace of mind, did we? No, most of us pillowed our head at night not having the peace that believers do. This is why Isaiah wrote, “The way of peace they do not know, and there is no justice in their paths; they have made their roads crooked; no one who treads on them knows peace” (Isaiah 59:8). The fact is, “’There is no peace,’ says my God, ‘for the wicked‘” (Isaiah 57:21) because “the wicked are like the tossing sea, which cannot rest, whose waves cast up mire and mud” (Isaiah 57:20). Not a very settling picture, is it?
You cannot have the peace of God until you are first at peace with God, and there is no peace with God until you have been justified by Christ. An easy way to understand justification is simply. (Just as if you never sinned)
Paul writes this very fact in Romans 5:1: “Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” That’s all the more reason to “rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation” (Rom. 5:11).
No peace? No God. Know peace? Know God. That pretty well says it all.
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