Give peace a chance. I’ll bet some of you who know me are thinking what in the world has happened to Mike. Give peace a chance? That does not sound like anything he would say. Normally you would be right, however in light of Philippians 4:6-7 my hope is that you would give peace a chance. Because it says:
6 Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. 7 Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.
Would it have made more sense if the title of today’s blog would have been give the peace of God a chance? If you stop and think about it God’s peace is what we should be striving for while we are here on this earth. How much better off would you be if you were at peace with God? Now realize that peace here does not mean that everything in your world is going to be perfect in fact the truth is we live in a fallen world so it will be far from that, peace is not the absence of trouble. Peace is what you should strive for while in the midst of trouble. When you look at verse 7 it says His peace will guard your heart and your mind. If you can protect those two things your life here on earth will be so much better. The best example I can give is a person who has been diagnosed as having a terminal illness and they are at peace with dying. That does not mean that they are not going to be going through hell. In fact they will have concerns about their loved ones the will be left here on earth, but the big picture is that they are at peace because of their relationship with Christ.
Do you realize that you are terminal? You will die there is no getting around that the question becomes are you at peace? If you answered either yes or no, my advice would be to go back up and read verse 6 again.
That is how you get peace. So I ask you, give peace a chance.
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