John 14:27
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the
world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them
be afraid.
Just before Jesus entered His final days on earth, He told
His disciples He would be leaving them His peace after He was gone. He instructed them that His peace was
different from the world's peace. He
assured them that His peace was sufficient to carry them through anything that
the world brought against them.
Earlier Jesus had told the apostles, "If anyone loves
me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come and
make Our home with him." The
presence of the Father and the Son (our peace) is thus based on our
relationship with Jesus. So it is easy to
see that if we are not in good relationship with Our Savior, we will be left
with the peace of the world and not His peace.
Why would we settle for anything less than the perfect peace
that only Jesus can provide us? Trusting
in ourselves or in the world will lead us down a very bumpy path at best. Let us set ourselves straight with Our Savior
so that we may receive the peace in our lives that He promises - His peace.
Prayer
Heavenly Father, we thank You for supernatural peace that we
have through Your Son, Jesus. We rejoice
in knowing that we can have peace even when everything in the world is coming
against us. We bless the name of Jesus
because His peace is sufficient to carry us through all of our trials. We ask the Holy Spirit to keep us mindful to
always seek the peace of Jesus first and not the peace of the world. We pray for the grace to keep us in an
intimate relationship with Our Savior and the wisdom and the strength to work
on making that relationship closer each day. We ask all these things in the name of the Prince of Peace, Jesus Christ.
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