Are You Ever Disturbed?
Peace I leave with you, My peace I give unto you. - John 14:27
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There are times when our peace is based upon ignorance, but when we awaken
to the facts of life, inner peace is impossible unless it is received from
Jesus. When Our Lord speaks peace, He makes peace, His words are ever
"spirit and life." Have I ever received what Jesus speaks? "My peace I give
unto you" - it is a peace which comes from looking into His face and
realizing His undisturbedness.
Are you painfully disturbed just now, distracted by the waves and billows of
God's providential permission, and having, as it were, turned over the
boulders of your belief, are you still finding no well of peace or joy or
comfort; is all barren? Then look up and receive the undisturbedness of the
Lord Jesus. Reflected peace is the proof that you are right with God because
you are at liberty to turn your mind to Him. If you are not right with God,
you can never turn your mind anywhere but on yourself. If you allow anything
to hide the face of Jesus Christ from you, you are either disturbed or you
have a false security.
Are you looking unto Jesus now, in the immediate matter that is pressing and
receiving from Him peace? If so, He will be a gracious benediction of peace
in and through you. But if you try to worry it out, you obliterate Him and
deserve all you get. We get disturbed because we have not been considering
Him. When one confers with Jesus Christ the perplexity goes, because He has
no perplexity, and our only concern is to abide in Him. Lay it all out
before Him, and in the face of difficulty, bereavement and sorrow, hear Him
say, "Let not your heart be troubled."
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Victoria E Gilkerson
