It’s shameful that so many people walk through life lacking peace. Though time has a way of slipping by, the days that we do have can be peaceful, because peace is available to everyone.
Individuals, by their own actions, choose to exile themselves from the one person that can speak peace to their life of turmoil and unrest. Jesus is the Prince of Peace. He alone is the answer for troubled souls.
Individuals, by their own actions, choose to exile themselves from the one person that can speak peace to their life of turmoil and unrest. Jesus is the Prince of Peace. He alone is the answer for troubled souls.
(John 14:27), “Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”
When the storm of wayward living blows against a person that is in sin, and their vessel is taking on water; the only way to find refuge from the gale forces is to call out to Jesus. He will speak the words, “Peace, be still!” in times of despair. He rescues the fatigued voyager from capsizing.
The lack of peace that dominates hardened souls is of their own making—self-imposed. They remove themselves from the presence of the Lord by pushing Him away, only to discover that their ‘corner of exile’ is lacking peace, because they wanted nothing to do with God. They turned their back on the only one that could bring rest to a disturbed way of living by rejecting God’s answer for peace—His Son Jesus.
Before long the weary traveler declines deeper into exile, because they prefer doing things their own way without accountability or responsibility to God’s ordinances. It is a lonely, despondent journey.
I remember when I was quite miserable; because I refused to take hold and grasp the Lord’s outstretched hand. I believed that I could find peace through my own initiative and strength.
Most every night that I pillowed my head I feared going to sleep. I knew where my soul was headed were I to die in the night. My thoughtless disregard for God was a constant reminder of the fait that awaited me—a devil’s hell. I had exiled myself from Jesus to do my own thing.
Someone said, “There’s no fear like fear itself.” The longer I opposed God and walked opposite from Him, the deeper I involved myself in things that lacked spiritual guidance, which creating fear and the absence of peace. I was headstrong and stubborn. I needed a Savior, but resisted His beckoning.
It wasn’t until I invited Jesus into my heart that I found the very thing I was searching for. I thought He was afar off, but found God near; awaiting my cry for help. The Prince of Peace that I had excluded from my life was standing patiently with arms outstretched. Jesus was born that I might find peace through Him.
(Isaiah 9:6), “For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given; and the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, and Prince of Peace.”
I discovered that I was not in total exile after all. God was with me all the time; I just didn’t realize it. He loved me so much that He gave His only Son to die for my sins. The love and compassion that Jesus demonstrated on the cross was for you and me. He came to earth to pay the ultimate price for the sins of mankind.
The Lord gave His life freely that we might have life more abundantly. Jesus made a way, the only way, that we could become children of God. No longer am I in exile without peace, because the Prince of Peace now dwells within me. I have become a Born-again Christian—old things are passed away and all things have become new through Christ Jesus. He is the Lord and Savior of my soul.
Written by,
Papa Boyd
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