Good morning, everyone. It is the 20th of April. Monday morning and I have been thinking a lot about peace. I read the other day in Psalms, Psalm 34 that says “Turn away from evil and do good, seek peace and pursue it.”
That’s chapter 34, verse 14 and it just reminded me of how we actively need to chase after peace. It’s not something that will just land on our doorstep and how I’m doing that this season, like how am I actually doing that?
Something that I’ve really been doing is trying to create boundaries in the sense of certain relationships that don’t bring peace. Of course, show up and love and always seek to have peace with people. Sometimes the only way to do that is by creating boundaries, so that people know that they can’t go over those boundaries because people, sadly, try to always do that and it’s constantly reminding them that is not something that you can do but it’s funny because I feel like I’m really starting to understand what it means to live out your faith in the sense of, I’ve had a few challenging situations happen in the last, few weeks and it’s reminded me of what it means to be bold in your faith in regards to you know, speaking out for it.
Speaking up for your beliefs and not conforming to what the masses are saying when you, especially when you know the truth and the truth is the word, the word of God, it’s the Bible and that brings me peace. It brings me peace to to defend it, it brings me peace to just know that I can rely on the word of God and that, even when challenging situations occur, which they do many times.
I still have peace at the end of it that me years and years ago, would have fallen into the trap of anger and when people are coming at me in a certain way responding to them in the same tone and it’s something that I find is happening less and less often now, which I’m so thankful for and even after all of that, I feel like my heart is still feels light, like I can still wish good on that person and feel for them because when one is hardened, how are your eyes going to really be opened?
When you don’t have a soft heart, these are the consequences of it. You know, you’ll be hardened, you’ll be unable to hear. So, It gives me peace and what I’m doing to, just add peace to what I’m going through in this season, being a new mummy,growing my faith is just to keep trusting in it and to know that I can rely on the word of God and I can spend my time, talking about God and glorifying God, and that gives me peace to know that life is not revolved around myself.
I feel like when life was revolved around just myself, that didn’t give me peace and it caused a great deal of problems and I feel like I can show up in the way I’m supposed to show up and the key thing is boundaries and I think people just know that this is what it is. This is what I believe this is. Basically what I’m standing for and it’s your choice if you want to accept it, reject it, doesn’t change how I’m going to be and because I believe in what I believe and that I believe that Jesus Christ is our Lord and Saviour, and he is our Almighty Father and until you accept that truth, you’re going to find it hard to surrender and that’s not going to give you peace.
Peace reigns on those who really seek it out, who chase after it, who look for it and if you look for, trouble, you’re going to find it, you know, like, so if you look for, disharmony, you’ll find disharmony, if you’re looking for togetherness, you’ll find togetherness, you know,what I mean? Like you have to seek things out. So it’s the same thing with peace and that’s something that I’m constantly reminded of and I’m grateful to know, what, I know, and I hope that, I’ll remember to see that the Lord is always good and that’s what gives me the most peace.
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