Are You Ever Disturbed?
“Peace I leave with you, My peace I give unto you.” – John 14:27There are times when our peace is based upon ignorance, but when
we awaken to the facts of life, inner peace is impossible unless it is
received from Jesus. When Our Lord speaks peace, He makes peace, His
words are ever “spirit and life.” Have I ever received what Jesus
speaks? “My peace I give unto you” – it is a peace which comes from
looking into His face and realizing His undisturbedness.Are you painfully disturbed just now, distracted by the waves and
billows of God’s providential permission, and having, as it were,
turned over the boulders of your belief, are you still finding no well
of peace or joy or comfort; is all barren? Then look up and receive
the undisturbedness of the Lord Jesus. Reflected peace is the proof
that you are right with God because you are at liberty to turn your
mind to Him. If you are not right with God, you can never turn your
mind anywhere but on yourself. If you allow anything to hide the face
of Jesus Christ from you, you are either disturbed or you have a false
security.Are you looking unto Jesus now, in the immediate matter that is
pressing and receiving from Him peace? If so, He will be a gracious
benediction of peace in and through you. But if you try to worry it
out, you obliterate Him and deserve all you get. We get disturbed
because we have not been considering Him. When one confers with Jesus
Christ the perplexity goes, because He has no perplexity, and our only
concern is to abide in Him. Lay it all out before Him, and in the face
of difficulty, bereavement and sorrow, hear Him say, “Let not your
heart be troubled.”