HELEN SANDERS
6-20-2024
THE GOD OF PEACE
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We should never look to the world for our inner peace. We should not look to any person, pastor, leader, or friend. Peace only comes from God.
In Philippians 4:7 it says, “And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”
So, how do we get the peace of God? We look at Philippians 4:9 that says, “Those things. Which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me do and the God of peace shall be with you.”
Paul was our example to learn from. If anyone had trials, tribulations, trouble, and tests, it was Paul. Yet, in all these things he had the “peace of God” in his life because he didn’t see this side of life as the end of his life. He knew that if he left his “earthly shell” he would be as it says in 2 Corinthians 5:6 and 8 that says, “6Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, [our physical body] we are absent from the Lord: 8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.”
Paul knew that no matter what happened the Lord was with him. This gave him the peace that passes all understanding. He did not have to figure it all out. He walked by faith, knowing God’s peace was with him.
How about you? Are you walking in that peace?
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