The Power of Peace
Dear Child of God,
Ok, so I actually had a complete blog draft ready to be posted, but the Lord really put this on my heart. I don’t know who is going to read this that really needed it today, but if God only had me write this for just that one person who needed it that’s enough for me!
Everyone wants peace. Peace is the calm but what is always missed in this aspect is peace comes after war. In Webster’s Dictionary peace is described as a state or period in which there is no war or the war has ended.
The hardest part of life is feeling like you are constantly in a battle, because to be honest as Christians we are fighting the greatest war, the war inside of ourselves. The devil will use lies and confusion in our mind to tear us away from the Lord. I am a naturally anxious person, and I am easily brought into my thought life to think the worst scenarios, and I allow those to dictate how I act. When I do that, the one thing that I know I am not doing in those moments is leaning on God, and being a witness for Him.
God is not the author of Confusion, so in the middle of your storm there is only one that is trying to attack you. You crave peace in these storms and that’s when you decide to rely on God. If He says to cast your burdens on Him, why wouldn’t you? You can’t control the storm, you can’t control the outcome of the storm, you can’t see what the end result of the situation you are going through is going to be. I have struggled with this a lot in the past, a situation comes up and I try my hardest to fix things my way, I want to see that I resolved it. But… I can’t. I have been in a few tough situations and one of my bestest friends was talking to me about how we are in this time where we have to make tough decisions and be put in hard situations for the sake of working towards a future life where we can serve the Lord because we made the right decisions, and we kept leaning on God for peace in our storms.
There are going to be moments in life when you just want to curl up in a ball and lie on the bathroom floor until the storm passes, there are moments when you want to take a pitchfork to that storm and right the wrong. The best thing to do, and I am preaching to myself as I write this, is to give it to God. Because God says in John 16:33 ~ “These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” We know who wins in the end, and who will bring justice to this world so why not serve Him and stay close to Him in your storms. You got this Christian!
I would love to hear from you guys! Head to the Testimony sharing and prayer request page and feel free to share what is on your heart… Make it a great week!
Sincerely,
Bella <3
