![]() ![]() I’ve started to practice breathing when I’m restless in those moments. Even if I answer each one, another comes flying back at me. ![]() Did we close the garage door? Did I just hear the kids call out? Was my friend offended by what I said? Shouldn’t I be doing more about all the problems in the world? Why does God allow such suffering? What if my daughter’s fever gets worse? Do my kids have to bring a snack to preschool tomorrow? It’s like the questions are ping-pong balls flying through my brain. I scroll through questions in my mind from mundane to meaningful. The spirit of peace will rest like dew upon hearts weary and troubled with worldly strife.- The Signs of the Times, December 27, 1905.Many nights, I lay my head on the pillow and the quietness of the evening makes my thoughts all the louder. The heart that is in harmony with God is a partaker of the peace of heaven, and will diffuse its blessed influence all around. So he bringeth them unto their desired haven.”. “He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still. His grace, which reconciles the soul to God, quiets the strife of human passion, and in His love the heart is at rest. However fierce the tempest, those who turn to Jesus with the cry, “Lord, save us,” will find deliverance. But He who spoke peace to the billows of Galilee, has spoken the word of peace for every soul. We are as helpless here as were the disciples to quiet the raging storm. The masterful passions of the heart no human power can control. Įvery man's experience testifies to the truth of the words of Scripture: “The wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest.”. ![]() The Lord says, “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.”. In perfect acquiescence there is perfect rest. Nothing of the world can make them sad when Jesus makes them glad by His presence. Those who take Christ at His word, and surrender their souls to His keeping, their lives to His ordering, will find peace and quietude. And He says to us, “My peace I give unto you.” While angry enemies were constantly pursuing Him, He said, “He that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone for I do always those things that please him.” No storm of satanic wrath could disturb the calm of that perfect communion with God. The Saviour's life on this earth, though lived in the midst of conflict, was a life of peace. He left them the peace which had been His during His life on the earth, which had been with Him amidst poverty, buffeting, and persecution, and which was to be with Him during His agony in Gethsemane and on the cruel cross. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you,” He said “not as the world giveth, give I unto you. But He left His disciples a richer gift than any earthly monarch could bestow on his subjects. He was a poor man, as far as earthly possessions were concerned. He had no silver or gold or houses to leave to His disciples. John 14:27.īefore our Lord went to His agony on the cross, He made His will. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. ![]()
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