Peace, What Is It?

There are so many references to peace in the Bible. Peace must be very important to God, don’t you think? What does He mean? There is the peace treaty that leaders of countries sign when they agree not to kill each other anymore. I don’t think that is it. God is thinking His kind of peace is much more than that.

There is also the kind of peace when a neighbor agrees with another neighbor that they will get along better with each other. Or, when a Republican agrees with a Democrat that they will agree not to agree.

There are so many ideas concerning peace. We all know the feeling of peace that comes over us when all seems well, when we are outdoors and gaze at the moon, or the sky, trees and grass, all of which God has made. That’s a good kind of peace, isn’t it?

However, I believe peace is much more than that. A class of artists was asked to paint a picture depicting peace. One artist painted a storm. Wind and rain were coming down hard, but a bird was in her nest, her feathers were covering her little ones. When asked why she painted a picture like that, she said, “The baby birds knew that the mother bird would take care of them, and the mother bird knew that God would watch over them. They felt peace,

When we trust God with everything, weather, money, home and family, illness or whatever, we will know what peace is. God will take care of anything His way. He knows the way and if we trust Him with our hearts and souls, He will listen to our pleas but do what is right for each of us. Sometimes it doesn’t seem right but we will keep our peace if we trust in God enough to know that He knows what is best for us. And that peaceful feeling is so, so good!