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?

Day 11 Devotional Verse

Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household. He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it. Matthew 10:34‭-‬39 KJV https://bible.com/bible/1/mat.10.34-39.KJV

Oswald Chambers Peace: Life in the Spirit.

Day 11 of 30 day devotional.

The coming of Jesus Christ is not a peaceful thing, it is a disturbing, an overwhelming thing. Am I willing to be born into the realm Jesus Christ is in? If so, I must be prepared for chaos straight off in the realm I am in. The rule which has come in between God and man has to be eclipsed, and Jesus Christ’s entering in means absolute chaos concerning the way I have been looking at things, a turning of everything upside down. The old order and the old peace must go, and we cannot get back peace on the old level.

When Satan rules the hearts of natural men under the inspiration of the devil, they are not troubled, they are at peace, entrenched in clean worldliness (cf. Psalm 73), and before God can rule a man’s kingdom He must first overthrow this false rule.

Reflection Questions: What chaos must I pass through to reach peace? What disturbance is required to overcome the old order? What false rule must be overthrown?

Oswald Chambers Peace: Life in the Spirit.

Day 10 of 30 day devotional.

To be “silent unto God” does not mean drifting into mere feeling, or sinking into reverie, but deliberately getting into the center of things and focusing on God. When you have been brought into relationship with God through the Atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ and are concentrating on Him, you will experience wonderful times of communion. As you wait only upon God, concentrating on the glorious outlines of His salvation, there will come into you the sleeping peace of God, the certainty that you are in the place where God is doing all in accordance with His will.

The peace our Savior gives is the deepest thing a human personality can experience, it is almighty, a peace that passes all understanding.

Reflection Question: Have I entered the “sleeping peace” of God where I am at total rest because I know that God is working through me, I am not working for God?