1 Thessalonians 5:3 KJV

Even so, come quickly Lord Jesus. This is a great thing !! Well, unless your lost and undone. 1st Thessalonians 5:3. Do you know the King of Kings? Are you 25% sure? 50% sure? Or do you know that you know your 100% sure?! Let not your heart be troubled. There’s still time! Soon there will not be.

Oswald Chambers Peace: Life in the Spirit.

Day 14 of 30 day devotional.

It is a great thing to have our spiritual sight tested by the Celestial Optician, to watch the way in which he rectifies and readjusts our sight. There is one unmistakable witness that Jesus promised us, and that is the gift of His peace. No matter how complicated the circumstances may be, one moment of contact with Jesus and the fuss is gone, the panic is gone, all the shallow emptiness is gone, and His peace is put in, absolute tranquility, because of what He says: “All power is given unto Me.”

Oh, the fullness of peace and joy and gladness when we are persuaded that nothing “shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

Reflection Questions: How has God tested and rectified my spiritual sight? What do I see more clearly now? How does clarity eliminate fuss and fear?

Oswald Chambers Peace: Life in the Spirit.

Day 13 of 30 day devotional.

A darkened heart is a terrible thing, because a darkened heart may make a man peaceful. A man says—“My heart is not bad, I am not convicted of sin; all this talk about being born again and filled with the Holy Spirit is so much absurdity.” The natural heart needs the Gospel of Jesus, but it does not want it, it will fight against it, and it takes the convicting Spirit of God to make men and women know they need to experience a radical work of grace in their hearts.

There are times when inner peace is based on ignorance; but when we awake to the troubles of life, which more than ever before surge and heave in threatening billows, inner peace is impossible unless it is received from our Lord. When our Lord spoke peace, He made peace. Have you ever received what He spoke?

Reflection Question: What kind of peace do I have: the kind that comes from confessing who I am and being reconciled to God or from ignoring who I am and living in denial?

Oswald Chambers Peace: Life in the Spirit.

Day 12 of 30 day devotional.

When we confer with Jesus Christ over other lives all the perplexity goes, because He has no perplexity, and our concern is to abide in Him. Let us be confident in His wisdom and His certainty that all will be well. “He abideth faithful; for He cannot deny Himself” (2 Tim. 2:13). The angels’ song is still the truth: “Glory to God in high heaven, and peace on earth for men whom He favors.”

The way of inward peace is in all things to be conformed to the pleasure and disposition of the divine will. Such as would have all things succeed and come to pass according to their own fancy, are not come to know this way, and therefore lead a harsh and bitter life, always restless or out of humor, without treading in the way of peace which consists in a total conformity to the will of God.

Reflection Questions: What perplexities disturb my peace? What gestures of peace do I expect from others that I am unwilling to extend? In what ways must I yet conform to the pleasure of God?