Peace of God

The peace of God has been on my mind quite a bit. I know that it is impossible to explain cause it is beyond understanding. But I am so thankful that God has seen fit to dwell with men and to give them His peace even in the midst of a storm.

In my own life for the past week I tried to work Philippians 4:4-8 into my life. It is really hard to live these verses cause they call for me to break old and bad habits and live in a new reality. Trying to do this all last week was difficult cause God allowed some none me pleasing things to happen in my life.

I allowed this to bother me for some time. But on Sunday afternoon I realized that the problem was that I wanted God to take away the problems He has faced me with instead of asking Him to give me the strength and His peace to go through it.

I think it is awesome how that when we do what the Bible says it really works. I got so focused on what was going on in my life and not on God who is a lot bigger than all that is going on in my life. I was focused on God changing the outward man instead of His changing the inward man and who I am on the BE level.

I am so thankful that when I make the choice to do exactly what God says. That He will do what He says he will do. All God wanted from me is to truly cast all my problems (cares) on Him thank Him for what He is doing in my life and for taking care of my problems. Then proceeding to think on the right things and His peace followed.

I serve an awesome God and I am so thankful that He is true to His word and He never fails. I am so thankful that peace and joy does not have to be based on what is going on in my life. That I can place them in my God and have peace and joy no matter what is going on in my life!

As usual I start out with a topic and then drift but anyway here it is.