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Peace, Because of the Prince of Peace

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Glory to God in the Highest and on earth Peace... Luke 2:14 These things I have spoken to you so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage, I have overcome the world. John 16:33 And He got up and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, Hush, Peace, be still. Matthew's 4:39 This season, not all is joy and holly. Joyous occasions give way to the stark contrast of who or what is missing, lost, and the hard we carry within.  It's like a light in the dark, quite noticeable and obvious. Jesus came. He came in the dark and not all was peace. He, The Light, the Prince of peace, the Great I AM, came. Darkness, hard, babies are slain, cries sounded and echoed.  But Jesus came. He is here to bring hope, light, and peace. He wants us to know Him. Storms, darkness, and hard, teach us things about Him if we stay with Him. He tells us to have courage. And as we come on the other side of the storm, what we learn about Him and the realization of what we w...

Perfect Peace

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You will keep in PERFECT PEACE  those whose minds are stayed on You, because they trust in You.  Isaiah 26:3  Many things can rock our world.  Many things can shake our foundation.  But there is one thing sure... God.  His faithfulness.  His big-ness.  Nothing shakes His world or His foundation.  Nothing shakes Who He IS.   And as we FOCUS, STAY our minds on Him, our hearts can know a peace beyond our understanding.  Beyond what makes sense. Sometimes, we are at point A and we know where point B is ... and our hearts are not in peace.  But it's those hard wrestlings that take time.  And sometimes, in our wrestling we think our faith isn't, but I really wonder what God thinks and how He views it. A friend shared a nugget from the book of Jeremiah... over and over God told His people... return to Me and I will heal you.  Return to Me... Her point was that God didn't f...