Where are you Looking for Peace?
This past week I was doing devotions with my wife (OYeah), and we were reading about genuine peace. So many of us want peace in our life but yet all we find is turmoil. I wonder if this is because where we are looking for peace?
At the end of the devotional there was a quote by a certain Corrie ten Boom. Yeah I don't know who that is either. But the quote really struck me when I read it and it kinda stuck in my mind. The quote is "Look around you and you'll be distressed; look within yourself and you'll be depressed; look at Jesus, and you'll be at rest!"
I know so many times when I look around me and look at myself I can feel like my life is out of control. I don't have all the answers and it can seem like nothing is coming together. But when I begin to look to Jesus everything seems to be ok. It is like I am a little child and he is my father and he is telling me that it will be ok. I know in my heart that he knows the answers, he knows my past, present, and future. I know that he has great plans for me.
Before Jesus left his disciples he told them this and I believe he is speaking this to me and you today. John 14:27 says, "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid." The peace the world offers is only temporary but the peace Jesus gives us can hold us for the rest of our lives.
If you want this peace just go to God and let him know that you need him. Tell him that what you have is not enough and you want the peace that passes all understanding. He will respond to you and there will be something inside of you that knows that God cares and it will feel like he is telling you it will be ok.
Our circumstances don't always go the way we want but it is good to know that God is with us.
So where are you looking for your peace. Look around and within you and you will only find disappointment and short lived peace. Look to him and you will discover a true peace.
At the end of the devotional there was a quote by a certain Corrie ten Boom. Yeah I don't know who that is either. But the quote really struck me when I read it and it kinda stuck in my mind. The quote is "Look around you and you'll be distressed; look within yourself and you'll be depressed; look at Jesus, and you'll be at rest!"
I know so many times when I look around me and look at myself I can feel like my life is out of control. I don't have all the answers and it can seem like nothing is coming together. But when I begin to look to Jesus everything seems to be ok. It is like I am a little child and he is my father and he is telling me that it will be ok. I know in my heart that he knows the answers, he knows my past, present, and future. I know that he has great plans for me.
Before Jesus left his disciples he told them this and I believe he is speaking this to me and you today. John 14:27 says, "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid." The peace the world offers is only temporary but the peace Jesus gives us can hold us for the rest of our lives.
If you want this peace just go to God and let him know that you need him. Tell him that what you have is not enough and you want the peace that passes all understanding. He will respond to you and there will be something inside of you that knows that God cares and it will feel like he is telling you it will be ok.
Our circumstances don't always go the way we want but it is good to know that God is with us.
So where are you looking for your peace. Look around and within you and you will only find disappointment and short lived peace. Look to him and you will discover a true peace.
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