Righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy [Spirit]: It may be good for a moment to direct our attention to the second of these. For peace, we find, is a potent element in Gods answer to his Sons prayer that he would keep us from the evil one (John 17:15). In God Himself there is a peace, a profound undisturbedness of spirit, which keeps him untroubled and undistressed in the face of unspeakable conflict and contradiction. In the world ye have tribulation, Jesus says, but in me ye may have peace (John 16:33). How easily we get troubled as soon as something goes wrong! But do we ever pause to consider what went wrong with the great purpose upon which God had set his heart? God, who is light, had an eternal plan. Causing light to shine out of darkness he designed this world to be the arena of that plan. Then Satan, as we know, stepped in to thwart God, so that men came to love darkness rather than light. Yet in spite of that setback, the implications of which we appreciate all too little, God preserves in himself a quite undisturbed peace. It is that peace of God which, Paul tells us, is to garrison our hearts and thoughts in Christ Jesus (Phil. 4:7). What does garrison really mean? It means that my foe has to fight through the armed guard at the gates before he can reach me. Before I can be touched, the garrison itself has first to be overcome. So I dare to be as peaceful as God, for the peace that is keeping God is keeping me. This is something that the world knows nothing about. Peace I leave with you; my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you (John 14:27). Love Not the World By Watchman Nee worldinvisible/library/nee/lovenottheworld/chapter%206.htm
Posted on: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 16:48:14 +0000
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