Peace Comes Through Christ

Peace is a hard thing to find in our diversified world with many conflicting ideas. No matter what, we can find peace with God.

Psalms 119:165 NLT:  Those who love your law have great peace and do not stumble.

We’ve already discussed that just following the Law does not make us right with God, but we should know it. If we follow how we are to treat others and how to react to them when they don’t treat us right, we can actually find a way to peace. It might only be a peace of mind that we did it by God’s Law.

Hebrews 13:20-21 NLT

And now, may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, equip you with all you need for doing his will. May he produce in you, through the power of Jesus Christ all that is pleasing to him. Jesus is the great Shepherd of the sheep by an everlasting covenant, signed with his blood. To him be glory forever and ever. Amen.

God will produce in us through the power of Jesus what is pleasing to Him. He does not just give us the Law anymore and expect us to get it right on our own. He helps us with His power through Christ. Once Jesus returned to heaven, He sent us the Holy Spirit as our helper and counselor to understand the Law more fully and be able to see how to apply it to life like Jesus did.

John 16:33 NLT

I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world.

Jesus wanted us to find our peace in Him. He knew this world would not be friendly or easy to live in. There will always be that one person that doesn’t get it and keeps on irritating people. Your kids will probably argue about doing chores or their homework on time. You might be overlooked at work or even lose a job due to no fault of your own. It takes a lot of work to feel at peace with it all and then handle it like Jesus did. However, we have His power and He already overcame the world and all that is in it. If you are following Jesus, you are following the ultimate winner and He did not have it easy here on earth because He chose to remove His godly mantle when He came to be with us.

Romans 5:1 NLT:  Therefore, since we have been made right in God's sight by faith, we have peace with God because of what Jesus Christ our Lord has done for us.

And I like how many epistles in the Bible, since they were letters, end with a blessing of some sort. In the case of Romans, is that God would be with them.

Romans 15:33 NLT:  And now may God, who gives us his peace, be with you all. Amen.

If you don’t have an inner peace despite how life is going, where are you looking for it? I suggest going to Jesus. You will still have trials and tribulation, but you will gain an inner peace no one can take from you.