Yesterday, I had a conversation with someone I love very much, who is facing one of the most difficult challenges in her life at the moment. She began to share with me the peace that she is experiencing. By the world's standards, there would be no reason to believe that her life will ever be normal again..but she doesn't live by the world's standards. She has chosen to believe God. She is standing on what she knows to be truth..and she knows that she is in His very capable hands.
The unlimited, indefinable peace of God does not come to us via our own effort. We cannot relax or meditate ourselves into the depths of this peace. We cannot mandate it by managing our own circumstances. We cannot will it by virtue of sheer desire. We cannot think our way into it with our intellect. We cannot orchestrate it with our vast skills. We cannot obtain it with our finances. We cannot force it by wielding our power. We cannot steal it from anyone's possession.
This peace is most evident when everything is falling around you, and yet you have a sure and steady stillness at your core. In the chaos you have more clarity than in so-called ordinary times. When everything is moving, it becomes easy to focus on the one thing that remains unshakable.
When you finally reconigize peace as the presence of Christ, you will never want anything else.
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