PERFECT PEACE

PERFECT PEACE

Friday, June 12, 2015

Psalm [GW] 119:165  There is lasting peace for those who love your teachings. Nothing can make those         

        people stumble.

Matthew 6:34; John 14:27; 2Corinthians 12:9 [God Incarnate speaking]  “Take therefore no thought for

the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.  … Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. … My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness.”

Galatians [MKJVl 5:22-23 … the fruit of the Spirit is: love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, meekness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

1Thessalonians [MKJV] 5:16-24 Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. Do not quench the Spirit. Do not despise prophesying. Prove all things, hold fast to the good. Abstain from every appearance of evil. And may the God of peace Himself sanctify you, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blamelessly at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is He who called you, who also will do it.

  God’s peace is exemplary and consummate. His peace is perfect. It is available to His John 1:12 empowered children. God does not deny us His serenity. We do. God’s provision of peace is readily had. Our lack of appropriation is not God’s problem. It is our acquisition issue

  Let us be clear on the distinction between world peace and His peace.

·          World peace is dependent upon comfortable ambience, non-threatening environment, compatibility, agreeability, lack of personal and/or political conflict.  It involves behavior pleasing to individual and group. Being well-fed and in good health according to personal standards. It includes satisfied appetites. It involves respect received. It requires actual or semblance of our being in control. Externals.

·         God’s peace is not at all dependent upon ambience, environment, compatibility, agreeability, lack of family, friend, workplace, national, or international conflict, respect versus disrespect, scarcity of deserved recognition or reward, personal appetites unfed, winning or losing. It is internal. Gal.5:22-23; 1Thes.5:16-24

  Appropriating God’s marvelous peace is had simply through trusting Him regardless of situation and circumstance. Hear the Word: “You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You; because he trusts in You. Trust in Jehovah forever; for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength.” (MKJV Isa.26:3-4)

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