ICS Daily Devotions
Peace with God
Have you experienced peace in your life lately?
The peace in our lives can be stolen quickly when something happens in our lives just like the peace and tranquility is broken when a pebble is thrown into a pond of still water. The peace that the world offers to us is more likely to be a false sense of peace that is subject to the environment. Peace can be stolen from us when we receive a bad report , have a strained relationship, have a health issue or when there is a national emergency.
Do you know that we are able to experience peace in our lives in the midst of chaos?
Romans 5:1(NKJV) Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
We are powerless to make ourselves to have a right standing before a holy, just and righteous God thus it drives people to look for the grace and mercy of God. Therefore, it is fearful and tormenting when men do not have an answer as to how they are going to face God on the day of judgment. However, if one has received the good news of God’s perfect love in the form of unmerited favor when He sent His only Son to die for us on the cross then our hearts will be settled and will be at rest. The grace of God is found in Jesus Christ. He came to seek and to save those who are lost. He died for the ungodly. We are justified or made righteous by faith in believing that God made Jesus to be sin for us when He knew no sin himself so that we can have the righteousness of God. Jesus’ blood was shed for us to obtain the forgiveness of sin and redemption from eternal damnation. This peace that we have obtained with God through Jesus Christ is purely the act of God and it has nothing to do with ourselves or our good works. Therefore, the wrath of God towards the sin in our lives has been completely dealt with once and for all on the cross of Calvary. Jesus has obtained for us the PEACE WITH GOD. We are able to enter into rest from trying to make ourselves to be accepted by God and concentrate on living a life that glorifies Him.
1 John 4:18 (NKJV) There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.
The opposite of fear is peace and peace is the absence of fear. We have peace with God! Our hearts are settled and experience peace because the above scriptures tells us that we have PEACE WITH GOD. When we understand the perfect love of God then it drives out all fear including future torment.
Sermon Series: Peace – Fruit of the Holy Spirit
