The Peace of God

Isaiah 26:3-4; You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you. Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord, the Lord, is the Rock eternal.

Today's Our Daily Bread (ODB) is connected with us dealing with procrastination in life. About we keep delaying important matters at hand in our life. And it really speaks to me. My heart has never been this anxious, uneasy, restless ever I think. With assignments due on Monday, and got disbanded from my audit team, I felt that the world was seriously against me. I felt so ridiculously lousy. I felt that I cannot handle this form of pressure at all. Not only I wasn't coping with anything at hand, moreover I felt that I was lacking behind my studies. Doing my tutorials work at the last minute.

Yes, numerous times I asked God to help me in my assignments. Help me to remove this anxiety that has been stirring in my heart for the past few days. And everything was in vain. I felt that my heart was getting heavier and heavier as the day passes by. I even went to the point of scolding God of questioning Him for how He has laid out my life as so. I was bitter. Towards God, towards myself and towards people.

Thankfully, on Wednesday, my friend agreed to form a group team with me for audit unit, so I felt really relieved. Yet my heart was still uneasy and pounding even harder than before. Even during yesterday bible study, I still wasn't feeling God's comfort and His love at that point. But I was on a verge of recovery I guess I could say that.

Today has been a barrier-breaking moment for me. Only I read today's devotional, I truly understand His nature, His word and His promise. Truly I soaked myself in His words, soaked myself in His presence. As the verse stated above, through God, your heart will be put to peace and I felt it today. That He will telling me that He will remove all these anxiety and do not worry for He has this assignment in His hand and all you have to do is finish the assignment and He will provide. He is our shepherd, He goes before us, knowing the things that is ahead, that is installed for us in the future. Yet we failed to grasp that concept. As Jesus says in John 14:6, He is the way, the truth and the life, no one goes through the Father except through Him. I felt His hand picking me, a minuscule being, that I may conquers mountains that I will be heading during my time here on Earth. His big, amazing, mighty hand protecting me and lifting me up, that I may not be weary, I may not be tired, that I may sore like eagles in the sky. So praise God for instilling peace once again in my heart.

As Philippians 4:6 puts it,
Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your request to God.


Verse 7 is the pivotal verse that says that,
 "and the peace of God, Which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus".
Verse 7 is so comforting and reassuring that Jesus Christ is our deliverance and our salvation.

I was also reading another devotional written by Joyce Meyer about a new heart. She quotes from Ezekiel 36: 26-27 that says:
 "A new heart will I give you and a new spirit will I put within you, and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh. And I will put My spirit you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you shall heed My ordinances and do them"

This verse is so encouraging that through what Jesus had done for us, we are relinquished from the binding of the old covenant and entered into the new covenant and we are able to have a perfect relationship with God. Through that, God has promised to send His holy spirit to reside within us. For our body is His holy temple. He is inside our heart. Inside our soul. One with our spirit. When He lives within us, that how we can communicate with Him, enable us to hear His voice, give us godly strength to do things we cannot do by our own strength and give us power to obey what He says to us even though we are less than inclined to do so. He is so close and near to us and you can really look forward to have mind-blowing fellowship with Him when you pray. Imagine that the creator of heavens and earth is dwelling with our body?? That kind of a crazy concept but it's true!

Sometimes, we have the tendency to forget to acknowledge His presence in our life, due to our extremely hectic life and overwhelming events or activities that consume our life and us in the process. We have the mindset that we have everything in tact and we will handle everything. That is when we become the master of our life, not Jesus anymore. And yes it is very dangerous web to get tangled in and I admit that I have been stuck there before numerous times. Yet it is so assuring that even though we may have gotten ourself in the wrong track, we can still come back to God and He will forget us and will guide us once more because of His mercy and His everlasting love. As 1 Samuel 12:20 quotes:
"Do not be afraid," Samuel replied. "You have done all this evil, yet do not turn away from the Lord, but serve the Lord with all your heart


Don't let yesterday failures bankrupt tomorrow's efforts. That is still a lesson-in-progress for me. But I will stay strong in the word of God and in the presence of God because through Him, all things are possible.