What is it about peace that’s so
important? Have you known the depths or been able to comprehend its reach?
Peace is multifaceted and immense but also tranquil and intense. I’ve sought peace
for years and pondered how understand its ways. I’ve walked in it like a meadow
on a crisp fall day, but also have been in the same meadow in the howling
winter winds with the snow biting at my face. I’ve been warmed by the sun in
the grass and scorched by the sun in the sand, yet in all these places peace
was still there. I’ve had peace in times of joy and peace in pain, but I’ve
also had anguish and torment in times of joy and prosperity. Peace has always
been there for me and always will, and yet still I have to choose it. I believe
the source of peace is the Spirit of God, active and alive like a melody in
harmony playing in the background and coming from another realm. But I have to
tune in and let the peace permeate my soul and let the resonance of it align my
ways with love. When yield to it I acquire its effect like a rare treasure, but
I must guard it because surely bandits will soon be on the way to try and make
my peace their plunder. The chiefs among them being worry and fear and leading
forces to inflict their anguishes. So I resist them as they come and try to
pollute my waters of life with their lies. Like subversive soldiers and spies
they wait in the shadows prepared to ambush at an opportune time. Inviting me
into places I should not be and offering me delicacies of decay disguised as
delightful dinners. So I must be aware and choose not to partake of their
offerings. The truth is that I have peace, but can also choose yield to things
that disrupt it. Who and what are these that seek to squelch my spirit, snare
my soul and destroy the vitality of my body? Shall I give in to counterfeits,
empty promises and substances that steal? What good can it do to worry and muse
with things that are untrue? Can I have peace in my body while ingesting poison?
Can imposters produce peace or pretenders prosperity? I think not. So I must think
evil naught and set my mind on what I ought.
I’ll meditate on what I know is
true,
I’ll yield to peace through and
through,
I’ll resist the things that call
for pain,
From poison waters I’ll abstain,
I’ll follow paths that lead me
higher,
I’ll give to light and feed the
fire,
By power of the Spirit who
strengthens me,
I’ll live in peace because I am
free.
John 14:27-28
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 heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
NKJV
John 14:27
27 Peace I leave with you; My [own] peace I now give and bequeath to you.
Not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled,
neither let them be afraid. [Stop allowing yourselves to be agitated and
disturbed; and do not permit yourselves to be fearful and intimidated and
cowardly and unsettled.]
AMP
2 Tim 1:7
7 For God did not give us a
spirit of timidity (of cowardice, of craven and cringing and fawning fear), but
[He has given us a spirit] of power and of love and of calm and well-balanced
mind and discipline and self-control.
AMP
Eph 6:10
10 Finally, my brethren, be
strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.
NKJV
Rom 15:13
13 Now may the God of hope fill
you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the
power of the Holy Spirit.
NKJV
