Finding Peace

How many times have you walked into a room, and stopped to try to remember why you walked into it?

That is one reason you need to frequently ask for a refreshing of the peace of God. Jesus told His dinner guests on the night He was betrayed that He was leaving His peace with them. It would not be like the world’s peace. Peace in the world is absence of conflict. His peace had power. His peace would look like conflict to the world, because it would be under His power, and therefore not under the opposing powers of the world. His peace would be a realization of the Hebrew concept of shalom – a settled, ordered, reconciled, harmonization of spirit and earth and man and beast and past and future.

We don’t hold on to it well in the battles in which we live. He Himself is our peace, as Paul wrote in Ephesians 2. We are more likely to keep up with our pocket phones and cups of coffee than we are to stay consciously engaged with the Prince of Peace. And we struggle with them most of the time.

Ask the Spirit to help you stay engaged and surrendered and obedient and empowered by His fruit. All the time.