For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. (Jeremiahm 29:11 ESV)
God’s Peace
A seven year old boy declared to me recently, “God stands outside of time.” Suspecting that the lad was reciting a memorized statement, which seemed beyond his understanding, I asked him what that meant.
He glared at me as if I were an idiot. And he said, “It means God knows tomorrow as surely as He remembers yesterday.”
He was right. And that knowledge and awareness give God a unique peace. He does not wring His hands about the future, and He does not scratch his head about yesterday.
He has it all under His dominion.
No worry means peace. No unsureness means peace. No insecurity means peace. Nothing out of His ultimate control means peace.
And His peace, of course, is where we get OUR peace.
But His peace is a gift to us, too. Knowing that HE is at peace is comforting. The poet Robert Browning wrote, repeating a medieval idea: “God is in heaven and all is well on the earth.”
God Himself is the gift of peace.