Living Life by Design

We ALL live in an atmosphere of strife. Pressures, difficulties, trials, battles and busyness is commonplace. All of these outward pressures make it hard for one to find peace. Yet this is exactly what God promises to give us.

As the psalmist writes in Psalm 85 that peace comes from listening to what ‘God the Lord’ says (v.8). Peace is also very closely connected with righteousness. The psalmist says, ‘righteousness and peace kiss each other’ (v.10). In the same way that love and faithfulness go together (v.10), so do righteousness and peace. 

Peace is given as a gift from God. It comes first from listening to what God says, and then from living in a right relationship with God (Romans 5:1).

In my life, I have become addicted to peace. As soon as my peace disappears, I ask myself how I lost it, and in every case it’s because my focus was not on God, and I’ve stopped dancing in the rain.

“It’ not about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning how to dance in the rain.”