07/22/09

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I'm working on the Fruit of the Spirit "Peace" this week in my Beth Moore Bible study. What I read yesterday was so good that I wanted to post it. It was something I needed.... it may be something helpful for you as well.

I had to read the first three chapters of Job so that is where this begins.

"Surely God gave us Job so that in the midst of our own misery, we would always remember a man who experienced worse... and made it. He lost his livelihood, his servants, his children, and his health. After days of sitting in silence, Job spoke 'out of the overflow of the heart' (Matt. 12:34) and wishes aloud that he was dead. Why was he overtaken by such despair? Because buried deep in the midst of all Job had lost was his greatest loss of all: his peace. Life is unbearable without peace.

Peace is often that "something" dissatisfied people ultimately discover they are missing. Sadder still, others never can quite put their fingers on it, living and dying in absolute turmoil. Recently, I heard an interviewer ask an Academy Award winning actor who "has it all" what he still wants to achieve. His answer? 'Peace of mind.'

So closely are peace and joy linked that Satan will most certainly steal our joy if he can undermine our peace. Striving, churning, tossing, turning, bitter, burning, never learning....

"But the fruit of the Spirit is.... peace." Galatians 5:22

Romans 15:13
Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.