"Does your life have peace? If so, what is the "peace" of your life ... and how do you experience that peace?Do you have complete satisfaction in your life today? If not, ask yourself: "what am I missing"?
I know many different types of people. People who live for money and people who live for love. People who live for themselves and People who live for others. People who live with a purpose, and people who are just living with no real understanding of why or what there living for. I've met people who know God intimately, others who believe in a God, and some who don't believe in God at all.Observing all the people I've interacted with in my life, as well as those I've viewed from a far, I've noticed that very few people know what "peace" is, let alone How to experience peace within their lives.
How do we find peace?
All my life I searched for peace yet could not find it. The reason I could not find peace was because I was looking in the wrong places. You can't find peace looking within yourself. You can't find peace by achieving goals, meeting benchmarks, traveling places, obtaining possessions, making money, winning all the time, "feeling" good, or having certain people in your life.
Peace is only found in God. Peace is only given through Jesus Christ (the bridge to knowing God personally and intimately). My entire life ... I couldn't see the blessings I had. I longed to look at my life through God's eyes ... but because my eyes couldn't even see God in my own life, how could I ever see His love, His peace, and His blessings he had given me. I couldn't! I couldn't experience His love, because I didn't know God personally. All I had was a religion and a religion is not a relationship with God through Jesus Christ. A religion won't give you peace, it won't give you hope, nor will it help you find meaning for why you are you, why your alive, and whats the purpose of your life. Until I knew God personally through a loving relationship of faith in Jesus Christ, I remained at a distance from love, from understanding, from hope, and therefore from peace!
Peace can only be found in experiencing God's love through Jesus Christ.
Until we remove the slavery sin holds over our lives, we will never break down the walls that are between us from knowing God and claiming everlasting peace.
When you realize that going to heaven has nothing to do with you, or that the forgiveness of your sins has nothing to do with you "deserving it" or "earning it" ... it is then you are free from the imprisionment of your own failure, from your own guilt and from the lies you've held your entire life. Its then for the first time in your life, you'll be able to live in the freedom that is found in living in Jesus Christ. Knowing Jesus Christ personally produces everlasting Hope, Joy, Love, and Peace. Knowing Christ not only removes the sins of your past, but it completely erases sin from your life all together. As a follower of Christ, I remind myself that all the time, because its easy to feel like your battling sin ...but in reality Christ freed you from all sin, on the basis of his shed blood on the Cross (*the resurrection*).
Jesus Said ...
"Peace I leave you, my peace I give you! I do not give to you as the world gives (temporarily). Do not let your hearts be troubled ..." [John 14:27]
"Peace I leave you, my peace I give you! I do not give to you as the world gives (temporarily). Do not let your hearts be troubled ..." [John 14:27]
Unshakeable Peace is only found in Jesus Christ. Those who do not know Him, cannot experience everlasting peace ... for Peace come from the Love found in Jesus Christ!
[Isaiah 57:20-21]
20 “But those who still reject me are like the restless sea, which is never still but continually churns up mud and dirt. 21 There is no peace for those still in sin, who reject me,” says my God."
Does your life have unshakeable love and peace?
It is never to late to claim the victory, the love, and the peace that is found only in living a life in the Love of Jesus Christ. I pray that you will claim the peace that is rightfully yours, today!
If there is anything else out there that offers unshakeable faith, love, joy, and peace ... please tell me ... but as for me ... I have ALL I need in Jesus Christ ... who has freed me from myself and shown me "life" :)
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