A Real Peace

This is Steve and welcome back to another segment of Press On.This is called a Real Peace The apostle Paul writes in Philippians 4:7: And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Here is a question...what is peace? No really what is peace? Quite often as we read the Bible we assume we know what certain words mean. Like peace. At the time when Paul wrote this letter, 61-62 AD it was believed he was in bondage. In fact the next 10 years would be hell on earth for followers of Christ. 64 AD: The the great fire of Rome began persecution of Christians by Nero…thousands of Christians… accused of the fire, according to Tacitus “were burned alive to light the streets of Rome. 66 AD: 110,000 Jews were massacred. 70 AD: Jerusalem is destroyed and 600,000 Jews are killed and 10,000 taken into slavery. We often define peace as the absence of turmoil...is this the peace Paul was talking about? No! Alexander Maclaren writes that this "PEACE comes not from the absence of trouble, but from the presence of” Christ. Biblical peace is that state of inner repose and quietness, even (especially) in adverse circumstances, which indicates that this peace is not natural but must be a supernatural work of the Holy Spirit, a truth that Paul affirms writing that “the fruit of the Spirit is…PEACE” Galatians 5:22. There is much more to this story but for today: Start the process of exchanging your worries for a supernatural peace by regularly surrendering them to the Lord. Stop and take a look around you and look at what’s happening in personal lives broken by a false peace, turn on the news if you can stomach it, look at the state of the world, try and find someone in government, Hollywood or social media is that the kind of peace you long for....nope! At the very core of each of us is this unquenchable longing for peace, a real peace the kind was meant to course through souls souls like a spiritual blood. Is that what you are Restless For? This is Steve an until we meet again “Press On.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.