Need Peace? Seek the God of Peace.

Do you worry about the future?  Does the world around you seem so stressed that you have no peace?  God is a God of peace.  He has peace.  He doesn’t worry about anything.  What is the difference between you and Him?

That is a silly question isn’t it?  God is God and you are not.  He is all powerful, all knowing and is in control of everything in the universe.  What does He have to worry about?  No one is sending Him credit card bills He can’t pay for.   His job is not on the line if He doesn’t meet deadlines.  He doesn’t have the troubles we do and even if He did, He is powerful enough to solve them with the snap of a finger.

Jesus was not all powerful, all knowing and was not in control of anything except for himself.  Jesus was just as weak and powerless as you and me.  It was the work of God through him that did all the healings, raising the dead, miracles and wondrous signs. Jesus simply trusted God.

Jesus’ only power was over his own actions.  He chose to trust God with his life and follow the leading of his father in Heaven.  Jesus was at peace, not because he had control of everything, but because he trusted the One who could control everything.

Philippians 4:7 "And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus."

The peace of God comes through Christ Jesus.  The peace which passes all understanding is only found when we entrust Jesus with our lives.  It is only through him that true peace comes.

Jesus trusted God and so must we.  We must look to Him for answers and trust that His answers are right.  Sometimes we will not see things going our way.  Sometimes we will see everything seemingly falling apart.  Even in times of disaster, trust the Lord.  In the end, possibly without you even seeing the end result, God will have the victory.

Remember that in any relationship trust is essential.  It is vitally necessary in your relationship to Christ.  The moment we lose our sense of peace is the moment we are looking at the problems and not at God.  We take our eyes off Christ when we have lost our trust in God.  The only way to find peace is to repent and turn back to Christ.

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