Inviting Peace
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 Posted by Debbie Legg
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Two
houses + one addition and remodel + no guarantee of any income for the first
year = one enormous panic situation for me.
As far as I was concerned, this read like the first chapter of “How to
Declare Bankruptcy in Two Months or Less.”
I
told my husband to not turn in his resignation until Monday. “I” was going to pray about it. I
begged, “Lord, if this is what You want, You are going to have to give me Your
peace, because right now I am so panicked I can’t see straight.”
I
wrestled with God and myself quite a bit that weekend, but by Monday I had peace,
the one “which transcends all
understanding.” (Philippians 4:7) Common
Sense says I should not have had any peace.
It’s a good thing God’s ways are higher than Common Sense.
I had that Peace because I asked
for it, and God gave it. “You
do not have because you do not ask of God.”
(James 4:2)
The Peace was a gift, but it was mine to accept or reject. I could have continued to panic and doubt
(and some days I did), but when I (again) asked for His peace, He gave it.
What
do you need peace about in your life? Maybe if you ask The Savior, born in Bethlehem into a world nearly void of peace, He will give it to you.
