Peace

I have an Oswald Chambers goody to share with you based on John 14:27 - "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you:...Let not your heart be troubled."

"Whenever you obey God, His seal is always that of peace, the witness of an unfathomable peace, which is not natural, but the peace of Jesus. Whenever peace does not come, tarry til it does or find out the reason why it does not. If you are acting on an impulse, or from a sense of the heroic, the peace of Jesus will not witness; there is no simplicity or confidence in God, because the spirit of simplicity is born of the Holy Ghost, not of your decisions...My questions come whenever I cease to obey. When I have obeyed God, the problems never come between me and God, they come as probes to keep the mind going on with amazement at the revelation of God. Any problem that comes between God and myself springs out of disobedience; any problem, and there are many, that is alongside me while I obey God, increases my ecstatic delight, because I know that my Father knows, and I am going to watch and see how He unravels this thing."

That last sentence has ministered to me greatly. I am finding out that as I obey God in my responses to people and circumstances, that I can actually relax and anticipate with "ecstatic delight" the end result that God will somehow "unravel" for His own glory and my best good.