Morning Inspiration with Pastor Merritt
Go back to what Jesus just told us. He said, “In the world you will have tribulation.” You are going to have trouble. You are going to face storms. You are going to have stress, but He said, “In Me you have peace.”
What robs us of our peace is when we focus on the problems and the pressures and the people and we forget about God. When we focus on Jesus and remember He is with us and there is nothing that we face He cannot handle then we have peace. My next door neighbor told me of how he went up in an airplane that flies into hurricanes. He says it was one of the coolest things he has ever done. When he was flying through that hurricane the plane was tossing and turning and you had to literally stay strapped down to your seat or you could break your neck being thrown about in that plane. What was awesome was when they finally flew into the eye of that storm. All around that plane were winds strong enough to knock a skyscraper over, but in the eye of that storm – complete calm. I am telling you that in every storm you face, there is an eye of perfect peace and that eye is Jesus Christ.
One of my favorite verses in the Bible is this one.
“You keep him in perfect peacewhose mind is stayed on you,because he trusts in you.” (Isaiah 26:3)
What the world calls peace is not what God calls peace. The world thinks peace is the absence of conflict, but actually peace is the presence of Jesus. Christmas brings peace with God. Christmas brings the peace of God.
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