PEACE

PEACE

Off-kilter…off-center…off-beat…just…off.  That’s how I’ve felt lately, like I’m somehow out of sync with the world around me.  Increasingly so…more and more it seems to be the case.  But then, isn’t that to be expected?  Jesus did say that we are not of the world, that He chose us out of the world, and that the world would hate us for that.  That word, “hate”, comes with a sense of aversion, disregard, antipathy, and incompatibility.  Why wouldn’t we feel “off”?  He also said that in the world we WILL have tribulation (affliction, distress, trouble).  So why are we surprised when it is a part of our experience?  “In ME you may have peace (harmony, friendliness, freedom from molestation, quietness, wholeness, completeness).  In the world you will have troubles; but…I have overcome the world.” (John16:33)

   

                                                                     

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