my prayer over the last semester has been that i would learn how to live in God's peace versus drifting in and out of it. how do you do this and what does it look like when things are good? how about when its bad?
"I am coming to realize that the act of dwelling there, really living in the Shelter of the Most High, is a daily decision. No, It's more like an hourly decision, a moment by moment awareness of the Father."
Diane Comer
there are so many things out there competing for our attention whether it is Christmas shopping, ugly Christmas sweater parties, facebook, relationships, and the list goes on! we make daily decisions of where we will spend our time and essentially where we search for peace. these things will always fail us. you probably won't have the ugliest Christmas sweater, somebody won't like their gift you gave them, you aren't going to have a new notification every time you log into facebook, friends will make you mad and break ups happen. none of these things are bad! but they won't fulfill us or bring us peace either. even as Christians we can so easily fall into searching for satisfaction in these things without even realizing it.
where are you searching for peace? in things of the moment or in things of eternal value?
"You are my hiding place; you will protect me from trouble and surround me with songs of deliverance."
Psalm 32:7
"So take a new grip with your tired hands and strengthen your weak knees. Mark out a straight path for your feet so that those who are weak and lame will not fall but become strong."
Hebrews 12:12-13