Peace, Perfect Peace

I don’t know about you, but I am almost stretched to my limit. There has been shopping, wrapping, baking, making, attending, laundering, cleaning, listing, packing, dispensing, writing, studying…and the list just goes on and on!

When I finally sat down last night (exhausted), I wondered where the peace was that I hear and read about during this season? For some reason, a song came to mind. We don’t sing it often but maybe we should. The words of the first verse just kept going through my mind and I calmed down as I thought about their message and meaning.

I decided to look it up in our song book and when I did, the messages I found in each verse calmed me even more. In the lyrics written below, I have emphasized the problems we face and italicized the answers to dealing with those problems. The message that Edward Bickersteth wrote in this song in 1875 is still relevant today.

Peace, perfect peace, in this dark world of sin;

The blood of Jesus whispers peace within.

Peace, perfect peace, by thronging duties pressed;

To do the will of Jesus – this is rest.

Peace, perfect peace, with sorrows surging round:

On Jesus’ bosom naught but calm is found.

Peace, perfect peace, with loved ones far away;

In Jesus’ keeping we are safe, and they.

Peace, perfect peace, our future all unknown:

Jesus we know, and He is on the throne.

It is enough; earth’s struggles soon shall cease,

And Jesus calls us to heaven’s perfect peace.

Those things I listed in that first paragraph that have me stressed out are my own fault. I choose to do them and when I do, my focus shifts off of what is really important in life. I hope that you will take time to read the lyrics above and receive the same comfort I did when I read them.

As I close this last post of mine for this year, I pray that you will be able to slow down and find the peace that only Jesus can provide.

“…let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

looking to Jesus, the founder and perfector of our faith…” (Hebrews 12:1-2)

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AUTHOR: Donna Faughn