Finding Peace for your Mind and Soul

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I must confess to you that the one thing that I have tried so hard to find in the last couple of months is peace. The more I aim to find it the more it eludes me. Could it be that I am looking in all the wrong places?

What I mean by peace is that I want my mind to rest in the knowing that God is at work in my life despite the chaos that surrounds me right now.

It is not that I don’t trust that God is working in my life, it just happens that no matter how hard, I try it feels like the world is always impressing some urgency on me.

I believe that peace is a part of our lives that we must not compromise. In John 14:27, Jesus Christ said peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled.

Notice here that Jesus distinguishes between what he gives us and what the world gives us. I believe that embedded in this passage is a promise and a warning. The promise is that we will have the peace of Jesus, and the warning is that we should not trust in anything that the world offers to find peace.

What is Jesus referring to when he uses world to describe the other place where we look for peace? Note that it is not only Jesus that uses this description in the Bible. 1 John 2:15 tells says “do not love the world or the things in the world”. It appears that the world is used to describe living in a way that does not align with the will of God.

We are all on the quest to find peace in our lives and we will either turn to Jesus or to the world. You see, I believe this is where I and many of us have gotten it wrong. It is so easy for us to focus on the things of the world to help us feel at peace. Things such as entertainment, money, food and relationships. What this often does is that it shifts our attention away from Jesus as the only source of peace.

Remember that peace is a promise that Jesus Christ has given to all believers, and it is one of the fruits of the spirit that all believers have through the Holy Spirit. So, a lack of peace often happens because we are not activating this promise and gift in our lives. We will always have access to peace when we choose to look to Jesus and not to the world to find it.

The truth is that the things that the world offers us are not able to fulfil the real and deep desires of the heart and soul and they will only be able to give temporary satisfaction or even nothing at all. The food for our souls can only come from God. That’s why Jesus said in John 6:35, I am the bread of life, he who comes to me shall never hunger and he who believes in me shall never thirst I am the living water and whoever drinks of me will never thirst again.