Well, it’s yesterday’s tomorrow, and as promised, I will share another gift. For those of you scratching heads, I posed yesterday the perennial question, “What would you like for Christmas?” followed by a resolute proposal that since salvation, my answering, “Nothing, I have everything I need,” honestly reflects my feeling that God’s grace is sufficiently supplying all I need for living, thriving, and accomplishing the purposes given my life. Yesterday then I focused my gifting on forgiveness. Today I reflect briefly on the gift of peace. I no longer have reason to worry about this life or where it is headed. Knowing now that I have purpose and destiny I can move on without fear of the unknown, because every step takes me closer to what I do know; that one day I will be with Him. “Peace I leave you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful,” Jesus says at John 14:27. This is meant by way of assurance that He is coming back for His own as He had said In John 14:1-4. Trusting Him in this dispels any point to worrying about it. This is quite a benefit! Plus this peace reminds me that though the “wages of sin is death,” the freely-given “gift of God…in Christ Jesus,” eternal life, is mine because of a very simple acceptance of this gift on my own part: “Those who call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved,” Paul wrote. (Romans 10:13) Because I “confess with your (my) mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your (my) heart that God raised Him from the dead, you (I) will be saved. No longer headed to a devil’s hell, God and I are on the same side, just as He originally planned. As such, I embrace the truth that “God has not given you (me) a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.” (2 Timothy 2:7) Peace brings with it power and regardless of circumstances, I will prevail because He is with me. This peace provides a sense of wonder due to the certainty of victory that only a child of God can describe. Quite a gift, wouldn’t you agree? We win, regardless! Opening drawers I look. No more need of socks, tees, or unders. Definitely no ties. I have lived long enough to have been in and out of style so often that something I already own must be fashionable right now. That pair of khakis is looking like a real possibility…
Posted on: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 12:44:25 +0000
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