Peace

Oh sweet peace. This is what I long for, and what, in my God, I find. Over the past several months I have come to know the deepest peace by coming to know my Father better. It is not that I know that He will make everything easy, or even that He will make everything "ok" by my normal standards. It is simply that I know that He knows always what is going to happen. That knowledge, combined with the fact that He loves me and wants only the best for me, is enough. It is really quite simple: If I know that God knows everything, and if I know that He loves me and wants the best for me (which, by the way is a deep relationship with Him), then all I have to focus on is obeying Him. He will guide me in the right direction. He will help me make the right decisions and do the things that will end up best for myself and others.

It is my belief that stress comes simply from uncertainty. This is the thing that in school, in business, in life, we are always trying to eliminate. But, for those who know God, there is no reason to expend all of this extra effort trying to eliminate all uncertainty. If you learn to rest in the knowledge of which I have spoken, your uncertainty in this world is o'ershadowed by your certainty of God and of his love. Simple. And that is peace. If you have not known this rest, it is because either you have not known this God or you have subsequently rejected the idea that you should believe and obey Him.