I used to think if I just tried really hard to obey God, things would go well with me. You know, circumstantially, this world, well.

But it seems there is a longer, eternal, better view.

And when God says, “There is a way that seems right to a man, but it’s end is the way of death.” (Prov 14:12)… there is eternal death, but also a death to ever finding peace in this world.

Oh, there are certainly those who go their own way, and ignore God’s ways, and circumstantially prosper in this life.

Some goes as far to mock the things of God and their earthly treasures keep piling up.

But the thing is, those treasures never seem to satisfy. The next purchase, the next relationship, the next success, the next high…just isn’t good enough, or high enough, to keep them satisfied.

They can’t find it in their wealth, or sex, or their looks, or power, or drugs, or any other fleeting thing. It remains elusive to them.

They want peace and it eludes them.
Again and again.

We hear of their divorces—looking for someone else who will make them happy.

We hear of their drug use—searching for that next high.

We hear of their sex changes—because maybe there they’d be happy.

We hear of their suicides—because this world wasn’t worth living for.

And, in that, they are correct.
This world will never satisfy.

But there are those who love the Lord, who seek to follow Him in all their ways and they suffer. Trouble after trouble.

This world chews them up, sickness comes, financial problems , and more…but those who follow Christ have something those who do not, find so very elusive.

And I’m not just talking about the hope of eternity and Heaven, but those who trust Jesus more than they trust themselves, those who choose to surrender their life and their ways to Christ, have what those who will not, absolutely cannot find.

They have peace.
Peace for this life
and all that comes their way.

In Jesus.
Only in Jesus.

Enough in Jesus.

For with Him, there is peace that lasts beyond the temporary. With Him, circumstances don’t have to be perfect for joy to be overflowing.

In fact, those who follow the Lord can go through the hardest of things and experience a joy that is supernatural!

And this has caused me to pray differently.

I’m asking the Lord to quickly make those I love, who live in disobedience to His ways, mercifully MISERABLE in their sin.

I’m asking Him to not let what is not of Him satisfy them for one minute. I’m asking Him to take them through whatever hard thing it takes to know the PEACE of Christ.

Because only He can satisfy.
He is life and peace.

“For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.” (Rom 8:6).

I see it again and again. Don’t you?

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