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I want to find peace –
It’s been tough for me lately because I haven’t found that balance between working too much and taking time to really ‘rest in God’. I’ve been planning a talk for K-Life next week on ‘God as Peace’ — and it’s been good because the whole talk is based around John 15 — Where Jesus is talking to His disciples about living in His love, in His peace. Letting the Truth abide in them, and letting themselves abide in the Truth. To me that sounds like perfect and wonderful peace. It’s almost pains me to be studying it for this talk because it makes it more real to me how terrible I am at doing this. I don’t rest in that Truth and peace as much as I wish I could. I know that it would make every little worry disappear — because the promise in John 15 is that in abiding in Christ’s love & peace, Joy will be made complete. The world will still exist along with it’s worries, but they wouldn’t be my biggest focus, because my joy would be real. That joy would keep everything else in perspective. It’s too easy for me to keep overwhelmed at being busy and then spend no time for me to rest, and rest in Christ not just be lazy. But ironically it’s the thing I crave more than anything else. Rest & Peace in Christ, which I know would transfer into complete Joy in life. So anyway, that’s my prayer for you and for me — that we can genuinely experience & know the peace of God.
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