Peace

This is the season that so many associate with peace. The Prince of Peace who came to give us peace on earth. But true peace is more than just a season. True peace is that overwhelming, all-encompassing assurance that God has you and all the details of your situation in His hands. Scripture describes it as the peace that passes all understanding. So, it is unexplainable to others. It is not something they can understand if they have not experienced it.

Peace can be simple or complex. Sometimes peace is time spent with your children- even if it does not seem peaceful. Time with them laughing, enjoying time together, unafraid and unconcerned with what is yet to come or what has happened prior. Other times, or in the same instance, it is also a sense of calm in the midst of an active storm of events that has many aspects out of your control. No matter how much chaos is swirling around wanting to distract, discourage and derail you, the peace God gives can hold you up and sustain you through all of it. This is the peace that only comes with a personal and close relationship with Jesus Christ who created and sustains all in this world.

In all that you battle, be it circumstances, the consequences of the sin of others close to you, or your own sin, make sure you are in a place of peace with your creator. It makes all of the difference in standing strong, and remaining at peace.

In the past two years, my life, as I knew it, has ceased to exist and been completely upended. In all of the chaotic time since, I have stayed strong knowing I am standing firm on truth, and doing what God has called me to do, being a Genesis mom to my kids. Being the one to speak truth to them, hold them close, praise God to them, and point them to Him in the midst of the “ick”. Telling them that just like Caleb and Joshua in the wilderness of old, we are called to trust HIM no matter what is happening and what we see or hear around us or from others. His arm is never shortened. He will be our protector and provider in all of what is to come.

The better part is even when I feel I don’t have answers to all of their questions, I know that He is holding them up when I have to let them go and can’t be with them. I hope that my pointing them to Him is done well and that they discover His peace all for themselves in the midst of all this. If the poor tesitmony of others does not result in their losing faith in the God who sustains, that will be yet another testimony to His power.